Unfolding retinal dystrophies: A role for molecular chaperones?

Trends in Molecular Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 414-421

  Chapple, J Paul ^b   Grayson, Celene ^b   Hardcastle, Alison J ^a   Saliba, Richard S ^b   Van Der Spuy, Jacqueline ^b   Cheetham, Michael E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; RHODOPSIN;

GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA MALFORMATION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; PHOTORECEPTORS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RETINA; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; RHODOPSIN;

EID: 0034853668     PISSN: 14714914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-4914(01)02103-7     Document Type: Review

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