Mutations Causing Childhood Ataxia with Central Nervous System Hypomyelination Reduce Eukaryotic Initiation Factor 2B Complex Formation and Activity

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2352-2363

  Richardson, Jonathan P ^a   Mohammad, Sarah S ^a   Pavitt, Graham D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CHILDHOOD ATAXIA WITH CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM HYPOMYELINATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHILD; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2B; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; MYELIN SHEATH; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATIONS;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 1542344340     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.24.6.2352-2363.2004     Document Type: Article

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