Bad chaperone

Nature Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1202-1203

  Lewis, Sally A ^a   Cowan, Nicholas J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; CHAPERONE E; PROTEIN TBCE; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

FACE DYSMORPHIA; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; KENNY CAFFREY SYNDROME; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MOTOR NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; OSTEOSCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; RECURRENT INFECTION; SANJAD SAKATI SYNDROME; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MICE; MICROTUBULES; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MUTATION; TUBULIN;

EID: 0036851823     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm1102-1202     Document Type: Short Survey

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