Utrophin binds laterally along actin filaments and can couple costameric actin with sarcolemma when overexpressed in dystrophin-deficient muscle

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1512-1521

  Rybakova, Inna N ^a   Patel, Jitandrakumar R ^a   Davies, Kay E ^a   Yurchenco, Peter D ^a   Ervasti, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; DYSTROPHIN; EPITOPE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SPECTRIN; UTROPHIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UTRN PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DEPOLYMERIZATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN FAMILY; SARCOLEMMA; ANIMAL; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STAINING; X CHROMOSOME LINKED MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIC MOUSE;

ACTINS; ANIMAL; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DYSTROPHIN; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED MDX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SARCOLEMMA; SHADOWING (HISTOLOGY); SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; ANIMALS; UTROPHIN;

EID: 0035999982     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.01-09-0446     Document Type: Article

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