Oligophrenin-1 encodes a rhoGAP protein involved in X-linked mental retardation

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6679, 1998, Pages 923-926

  Billuart, Pierre ^a   Bienvenu, Thierry ^a   Roncet, Nathalie ^b   Des Portes, Vincent ^a   Vinet, Marie Claude ^a   Zemni, Ramzi ^a   Crollius, Hugues Roest ^c   Carrié, Alain ^a   Fauchereau, Fabien ^a   Cherry, Michele ^d   Briault, Sylvain ^b   Hamel, Ben ^e   Fryns, Jean Pierre ^f   Beldjord, Cherif ^a   Kahn, Axel ^a   Moraine, Claude ^b   Chelly, Jamel ^a  

^a INSTITUT COCHIN   (France)

^b CHU BRETONNEAU   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; X CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEINS; RAS GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0032580161     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/31940     Document Type: Article

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