Multiple and surprising new functions for emerin, a nuclear membrane protein

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 73-79

  Bengtsson, Luiza ^a   Wilson, Katherine L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

40 residue folded motif shared by LAP2, emerin and MAN1; (nuclear) inner membrane; BAF; Barrier to autointegration factor; EDMD; Emery Dreifuss muscular dystrophy; Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching; FRAP; GCL; Germ cell less; IM; LEM domain; MEF

Indexed keywords

EMERIN; F ACTIN; LAMIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MYOSIN I;

CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; EMERY DREIFUSS MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LAMINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, EMERY-DREIFUSS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; THYMOPOIETINS;

EID: 1542382269     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2003.11.012     Document Type: Review

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