The interrelationship between selective tau phosphorylation and microtubule association

Brain Research

Volumn 798, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 173-183

  Xie, Han Qing ^a   Litersky, Joel M ^a   Hartigan, Judith A ^a   Jope, Richard S ^a   Johnson, Gail V w ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Lithium; Microtubule; Okadaic acid; Osmotic stress; Protein kinase A; Tau

Indexed keywords

CASEIN KINASE I; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; LITHIUM; NOCODAZOLE; OKADAIC ACID; TAU PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; NEUROBLASTOMA CELL; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FORSKOLIN; HUMANS; LITHIUM; MICROTUBULES; NOCODAZOLE; OKADAIC ACID; PACLITAXEL; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITORS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PYRROLIDINONES; ROLIPRAM; TAU PROTEINS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032490652     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00407-7     Document Type: Article

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