Targeted Mutagenesis of Processing Enzymes and Regulators: Implications for Development and Physiology

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 446-455

  Czyzyk, Traci A ^a   Morgan, Daniel J ^a   Peng, Bonnie ^a   Zhang, Jiwen ^a   Karantzas, Alexander ^a   Arai, Maya ^a   Pintar, John E ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; ENDOPROTEASE; FURIN; KALIRIN; NEUROHORMONE; NEUROPEPTIDE; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN PACE4; PROTEIN PC1; PROTEIN PC2; PROTEIN PC4; PROTEIN PC5; PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMIDATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GENE TARGETING; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SHORT SURVEY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CARBOXYPEPTIDASES; CARRIER PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MUTAGENESIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASES;

EID: 0242267125     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.10792     Document Type: Short Survey

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