Doublecortin mutations cluster in evolutionarily conserved functional domains

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 703-712

  Sapir, Tamar ^a   Horesh, David ^a   Caspi, Michal ^a   Atlas, Roee ^a   Burgess, Harold A ^a   Grayer Wolf, Sharon ^a   Francis, Fiona ^a   Chelly, Jamel ^b   Elbaum, Michael ^a   Pietrokovski, Shmuel ^a   Reiner, Orly ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b université Paris Cité   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLECORTIN; HISTIDINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; REPETITIVE DNA; TUBULIN; TYROSINE;

AGYRIA; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; HETEROTOPIA; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 19244375809     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/9.5.703     Document Type: Article

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