Functional effects of tau gene mutations ΔN296 and N296H

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 548-551

  Yoshida, Hirotaka ^a   Crowther, R Anthony ^a   Goeder, Michel ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternative mRNA splicing; Frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17; Microtubule assembly; Tau filament assembly; Tau gene

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; RNA; TAU PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 17; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; NONHUMAN; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; TAU GENE;

EXONS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROTUBULES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 0036488210     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0022-3042.2001.00729.x     Document Type: Article

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