Syntaxin 2 splice variants exhibit differential expression patterns, biochemical properties and subcellular localizations

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 112, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 4291-4304

  Quiñones, Beatriz ^a,d   Riento, Kirsi ^b   Olkkonen, Vesa M ^b   Hardy, Stephen ^c   Bennett, Mark K ^a,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c CELL GENESYS INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^f RIGEL PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative; Membrane trafficking; Plasma membrane; Polarized cell; SNARE; Splicing; Syntaxin; Transmembrane domain

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN N SEC1; RNA; SNARE PROTEIN; SYNAPTOBREVIN 1; SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 23; SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25; SYNTAXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL STRAIN CACO 2; ENDOSOME; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN VARIANT; RAT; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BRAIN; CELL MEMBRANE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COS CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; SYNTAXIN 1; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0345237979     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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