New insights into Fragile X syndrome: Relating genotype to phenotype at the molecular level

FEBS Journal

Volumn 272, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 872-878

  Pozdnyakova, Irina ^a   Regan, Lynne ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila Fragile X related protein; Fragile X syndrome; KH domains; NMR; Stability

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; DROSOPHILA FRAGILE X RELATED PROTEIN; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; ISOLEUCINE; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DROSOPHILA; FMR1 GENE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE LOCATION; GENE SILENCING; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THERMOSTABILITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PHENOTYPE; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 13444278651     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2004.04527.x     Document Type: Article

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