Nuclear targeting defect of SMN lacking the C-terminus in a mouse model of spinal muscular atrophy

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 849-858

  Frugier, Tony ^a,b   Tiziano, Francesco D ^a,b   Cifuentes Diaz, Carmen ^a,b   Miniou, Pierre ^a   Roblot, Natacha ^a,b   Dierich, Andrée ^a   Le Meur, Marianne ^a   Melki, Judith ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COILIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; HEREDITARY SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0034701295     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/9.5.849     Document Type: Article

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