Smn, the spinal muscular atrophy-determining gene product, modulates axon growth and localization of β-actin mRNA in growth cones of motoneurons

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 163, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 801-812

  Rossoll, Wilfried ^a   Jablonka, Sibylle ^a   Andreassi, Catia ^a   Kröning, Ann Kathrin ^a   Karle, Kathrin ^a   Monani, Umrao R ^b   Sendtner, Michael ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

actin; HnRNP R; RNA transport; SMA; SMN

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GROWTH CONE; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; SPLICEOSOME;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ACTINS; ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GROWTH CONES; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PC12 CELLS; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0345599021     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200304128     Document Type: Article

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