DRAGON: A Member of the Repulsive Guidance Molecule-Related Family of Neuronal- and Muscle-Expressed Membrane Proteins Is Regulated by DRG11 and Has Neuronal Adhesive Properties

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2027-2036

  Samad, Tarek A ^a   Srinivasan, Ashok ^a   Karchewski, Laurie A ^a   Jeong, Sung Jin ^a   Campagna, Jason A ^a   Ji, Ru Rong ^a   Fabrizio, David A ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a   Lin, Herbert Y ^a   Bell, Esther ^b   Woolf, Clifford J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Development; GPI anchor; Muscle; Neuron; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

DRAGON PROTEIN; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; REPULSIVE GUIDANCE MOLECULE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DRG11; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL ADHESION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DL M GENE; DRAGON GENE; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULE; MOUSE; MRGM GENE; MUSCLE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL GANGLION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUSCLE PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; NEURONS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 10744228029     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4115-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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