Structural roles of acetylcholinesterase variants in biology and pathology

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 264, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 672-686

  Grisaru, Dan ^a,b   Sternfeld, Meira ^b   Eldor, Amiram ^a   Glick, David ^b   Soreq, Hermona ^b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Antisense; Cholinergic; Cytoskeleton; Dementia; Hematopoiesis; Homology; N eurexin; Osteogenesis; Stress

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; CELL PROTEIN;

BONE DEVELOPMENT; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DEMENTIA; ENZYME ANALYSIS; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRESS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMANS; NEURITES; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; OSTEOGENESIS; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033568704     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00693.x     Document Type: Review

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