Expression of mutant Ets protein at the neuromuscular synapse causes alterations in morphology and gene expression

EMBO Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1075-1081

  de Kerchove d'Exaerde, Alban ^a,b   Cartaud, Jean ^c   Ravel Chapuis, Aymeric ^d   Seroz, Thierry ^a   Pasteau, Fabien ^d   Angus, Lindsay M ^e   Jasmin, Bernard J ^e   Changeux, Jean Pierre ^a   Schaeffer, Laurent ^d  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; PROTEIN MUSK; RAPSYN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ERF PROTEIN, HUMAN; ETS2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; LAMININ; LAMININ S; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN; MUSK PROTEIN, HUMAN; ONCOPROTEIN; PERIPHERAL MEMBRANE PROTEIN 43K; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS 2; UTRN PROTEIN, MOUSE; UTROPHIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUTANT; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; MUS MUSCULUS;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LAMININ; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUTATION; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEIN C-ETS-2; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES; UTROPHIN;

EID: 1842858369     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/embo-reports/kvf220     Document Type: Article

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