Molecular motors and mechanisms of directional transport in neurons

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 201-214

  Hirokawa, Nobutaka ^a   Takemura, Reiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Okinaka Memorial Institute for Medical Research   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; KINESIN; MESSENGER RNA; MOLECULAR MOTOR; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN;

CELL FUNCTION; CELL SURVIVAL; DENDRITE; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION;

ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; AXONS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DENDRITES; KINESIN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; NEURONS; PROTEIN BINDING;

EID: 14844331501     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1624     Document Type: Review

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