SYD-1, a presynaptic protein with PDZ, C2 and rhoGAP-like domains, specifies axon identity in C. elegans

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1137-1146

  Hallam, Steven J ^a   Goncharov, Alexandr ^a   McEwen, Jason ^a   Baran, Renee ^a   Jin, Yishi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE PROTEIN; PROTEIN SYD 1; RHO FACTOR; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; MALE; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NEURITES; NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0036829896     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn959     Document Type: Article

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