NYX (nyctalopin on chromosome X), the gene mutated in congenital stationary night blindness, encodes a cell surface protein

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 4184-4191

  Zeitz, Christina ^a,b,c   Scherthan, Harry ^a,b   Freier, Susanne ^b   Feil, Silke ^a,b   Suckow, Vanessa ^b   Schweiger, Susann ^b   Berger, Wolfgang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; NYCTALOPIN; PROTEIN NYX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN COS7; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GENE MUTATION; GOLGI COMPLEX; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NIGHT BLINDNESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL FRACTIONATION; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; DNA PRIMERS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; GOLGI APPARATUS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MUTATION; NIGHT BLINDNESS; PROTEOGLYCANS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0141430844     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.03-0251     Document Type: Article

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