Myosin VIIa participates in opsin transport through the photoreceptor cilium

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 6267-6274

  Liu, Xinran ^a   Udovichenko, Igor P ^a   Brown, Stephen D M ^b   Steel, Karen P ^c   Williams, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MRC MAMMALIAN GENETICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cilium; Molecular motor; Myosin; Opsin; Photoreceptor; Usher syndrome

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN; OPSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE MUTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EID: 0033178341     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-15-06267.1999     Document Type: Article

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