A glial-neuronal signaling pathway revealed by mutations in a neurexin- related protein

Science

Volumn 283, Issue 5406, 1999, Pages 1343-1345

  Yuan, Li Lian ^a,b   Ganetzky, Barry ^b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL INTERACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GLIA CELL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; ION CHANNELS; MUTATION; NEUROGLIA; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TEMPERATURE;

INSECTA;

EID: 0033605123     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5406.1343     Document Type: Article

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36. We thank B. Jones and C. Goodman for providing the gcm strain; R. Kreber for excellent technical help; C.-S. Hong for advice and help on the initial phase of this project; C.-F. Wu, M.-L. Chen, and M. Stern for providing help and equipment for some experiments; and T. Littleton, G. Wilson, B. Anson, and C. Kung for comments on the manuscript. Supported by grants from NIH (GM43100 and NS15390) and Wyeth-Ayerst. This is paper number 3527 from the Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison.