Intermediate filament disassembly in cultured dorsal root ganglion neurons is associated with amino-terminal head domain phosphorylation of specific subunits

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1869-1875

  Giasson, Benoit I ^a   Mushynski, Walter E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assembly; Neurofilament; Peripherin; Phosphatase; Protein kinase A; Internexin

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; OKADAIC ACID; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENZYME INHIBITION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SPINAL GANGLION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031958195     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1998.70051869.x     Document Type: Article

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