CAST2: Identification and characterization of a protein structurally related to the presynaptic cytomatrix protein CAST

Genes to Cells

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 15-23

  Deguchi Tawarada, Maki ^a   Inoue, Eiji ^a   Takao Rikitsu, Etsuko ^a   Inoue, Marie ^a   Ohtsuka, Toshihisa ^a   Takai, Yoshimi ^b  

^a KAN Research Institute ^*  (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAST2 PROTEIN; CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MEMBRANE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOCYTOSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOMERIZATION; ORTHOLOGY; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RATS; SYNAPSES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0842324001     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1356-9597.2004.00697.x     Document Type: Article

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