Bassoon, a novel zinc-finger CAG/glutamine-repeat protein selectively localized at the active zone of presynaptic nerve terminals

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 499-509

  Tom Dieck, Susanne ^a   Sanmartí Vila, Lydia ^a   Langnaese, Kristina ^a   Richter, Karin ^a   Kindler, Stefan ^b   Soyke, Antje ^c   Wex, Heike ^a,e   Smalla, Karl Heinz ^a,c   Kämpf, Udo ^a   Fränzer, Jürgen Theodor ^a   Stumm, Markus ^c   Garner, Craig C ^d   Gundelfinger, Eckart D ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^e MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mouse bassoon gene; Presynaptic terminals; Rat brain; Synapses; Trinucleotide repeats

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CONTACT; CYTOSKELETON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PEPTIDES; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 14444271321     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.142.2.499     Document Type: Article

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