Tubby proteins: The plot thickens

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 55-63

  Carroll, Kilpatrick ^a   Gomez, Carlos ^b   Shapiro, Lawrence ^a,b,c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^c NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN; TUBBY LIKE PROTEIN 1; TUBBY LIKE PROTEIN 2; TUBBY LIKE PROTEIN 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; GENE MUTATION; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA DEGENERATION; REVIEW; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; OBESITY; POINT MUTATION; PROTEINS;

EID: 0347132262     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1278     Document Type: Review

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