Synphilin-1 associates with α-synuclein and promotes the formation of cytosolic inclusions

Nature Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 110-114

  Engelender, Simone ^a   Kaminsky, Zachary ^a   Xin, Guo ^a   Sharp, Alan H ^a   Amaravi, Ravi K ^a   Kleiderlein, John J ^a   Margolis, Russell L ^a   Troncoso, Juan C ^b   Lanahan, Anthony A ^a   Worley, Paul F ^a   Dawson, Valina L ^a   Dawson, Ted M ^a   Ross, Christopher A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BRADYKINESIA; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEWY BODY; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TREMOR;

ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 5; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCLUSION BODIES; LEWY BODIES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYNUCLEINS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE EXTRACTS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0032952414     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/8820     Document Type: Article

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