Overexpression of muscle specific kinase increases the transcription and aggregation of acetylcholine receptors in Xenopus embryos

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 96, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 21-29

  Fu, Amy K Y ^a   Cheung, Janet ^a   Smith, Frances D ^a   Ip, Fanny C F ^a   Ip, Nancy Y ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

AChR; Agrin; MuSK; Neuregulin; Neuromuscular junction; Receptor tyrosine kinase; Synapse formation

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; MUSCLE PROTEIN; MUSCLE SPECIFIC KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RAPSYN; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAPPING PHENOMENON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE DELETION; IN VIVO STUDY; INNERVATION; KRINGLE DOMAIN; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MUTAGENESIS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PHOSPHORYLATION; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; SYNAPSES; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSFECTION; TYROSINE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0035976723     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(01)00253-4     Document Type: Article

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