LL5β: A regulator of postsynaptic differentiation identified in a screen for synaptically enriched transcripts at the neuromuscular junction

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 355-366

  Kishi, Masashi ^a   Kummer, Terrance T ^a   Eglen, Stephen J ^a,b   Sanes, Joshua R ^a,c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; FILAMIN; GENE PRODUCT; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITIDE; PROTEIN LL5BETA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; CONTRACTILE PROTEIN; FILAMINS; INTERLEUKIN 5; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAPPING PHENOMENON; DNA MICROARRAY; MOUSE; MYOTUBE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; MUSCLE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTERLEUKIN-5; MICE; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 18544369905     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200411012     Document Type: Article

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