Bfsp2 mutation found in mouse 129 strains causes the loss of CP49 and induces vimentin-dependent changes in the lens fibre cell cytoskeleton

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 109-123

  Sandilands, Aileen ^a   Wang, Xin ^b   Hutcheson, Aileen M ^a   James, John ^a   Prescott, Alan R ^a   Wegener, Alfred ^c   Pekny, Milos ^d   Gong, Xiahou ^b   Quinlan, Roy A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

129 mouse strain; Cytoskeleton; Intermediate filament; Natural knockout mutation

Indexed keywords

FILENSIN; GENE PRODUCT; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN CP49; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BFSP2 GENE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; EXON; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; KNOCKOUT GENE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LENS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOP CODON; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0345550308     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2003.09.001     Document Type: Article

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