GPI-anchored proteins and glycosphingolipid-rich rafts: Platforms for adhesion and signaling

Neuroscientist

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 271-284

  Trotter, Jacqueline ^a   Klein, Corinna ^a   Krämer, Eva Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor; Lymphocyte; Neuro n; Raft; Signaling

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; CYTOKINE RECEPTOR; EPHRIN; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPID; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MYELIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; PROTEOGLYCAN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL TYPE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; GOLGI COMPLEX; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PAROXYSMAL NOCTURNAL HEMOGLOBINURIA; PRION DISEASE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STORAGE DISEASE;

EID: 0033856546     PISSN: 10738584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107385840000600410     Document Type: Review

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