Sialic acid inhibits agrin signaling in C2 myotubes

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 299, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 273-279

  Grow, Wade A ^a,b   Gordon, Herman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Cell culture; Glycoconjugates; MuSK; Neuraminidase; Neuromuscular synapse; Tyrosine phosphorylation

Indexed keywords

AGRIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; GLYCOCONJUGATE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; SIALIC ACID; SIALIDASE;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE FIBER CULTURE; MYOTUBE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AGRIN; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; MUSCLE FIBERS; N-ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID; NEURAMINIDASE; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECEPTOR AGGREGATION; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033970661     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410050025     Document Type: Article

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