Proteins that bind A-type lamins: Integrating isolated clues

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 979-987

  Zastrow, Michael S ^a   Vlcek, Sylvia ^a   Wilson, Katherine L ^a  

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

Author keywords

Emerin; Emery Dreifuss muscular dystrophy; Hutchinson Gilford progeria syndrome; Laminopathy; Nuclear envelope

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; DNA; EMERIN; LAMIN A; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NESPRIN 1ALPHA; PROTEIN KINASE C ALPHA; PROTEIN LAP2ALPHA; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BINDING SITE; BONE DYSPLASIA; CELL FUNCTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; EMERY DREIFUSS MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC REGULATION; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LIMB GIRDLE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; LIPODYSTROPHY; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PREMATURE AGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGERIA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; LAMIN TYPE A; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 1842584782     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.01102     Document Type: Review

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