An essential role for katanin in severing microtubules in the neuron

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 305-315

  Ahmad, Fridoon J ^a   Yu, Wenqian ^a   McNally, Francis J ^b   Baas, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon; Centrosome; Katanin; Microtubule; Neuron

Indexed keywords

MICROTUBULE PROTEIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CENTROSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAT;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONS; CELLS, CULTURED; CENTROSOME; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MICROTUBULES; NEURONS; RATS; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0344603646     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.145.2.305     Document Type: Article

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