Identification of a neural cell specific variant of microtubule-associated protein 4

Cell Structure and Function

Volumn 29, Issue 5-6, 2005, Pages 111-124

  Matsushima, Kazuyuki ^a   Aosaki, Masafumi ^a   Tokuraku, Kiyotaka ^b   Hasan, Mohammad Rubayet ^a   Nakagawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Kotani, Susumu ^a,c  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b MIYAKONOJO NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

MAP variant; MAP4; Microtubule bundling; Microtubule associated proteins; Neural cell specific; Proline rich

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 4; PROLINE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENAL MEDULLA; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; EXON; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN VARIANT; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EXONS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PC12 CELLS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROLINE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TUBULIN; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 17844363030     PISSN: 03867196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1247/csf.29.111     Document Type: Article

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