Systematic analysis of genes required for synapse structure and function

Nature

Volumn 436, Issue 7050, 2005, Pages 510-516

  Sieburth, Derek ^a   Ch'ng, Queelim ^a   Dybbs, Michael ^a   Tavazoie, Masoud ^a,e   Kennedy, Scott ^b   Wang, Duo ^a   Dupuy, Denis ^c   Rual, Jean François ^c   Hill, David E ^c   Vidal, Marc ^c,d   Ruvkun, Gary ^a,d   Kaplan, Joshua M ^a,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXATION; DEFECTS; ESTERS; MUSCLE; NEUROLOGY; PROTEINS; SIGNALING;

HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING; SECRETION; SYNAPSE STRUCTURE;

GENES;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALDICARB; NEUROPEPTIDE; PHORBOL ESTER; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; NEURABIN; SYNAPTOBREVIN;

GENETIC ANALYSIS;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SCREENING; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSKELETON; DRUG RESISTANCE; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOTONEURON; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SECRETION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ALDICARB; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOSKELETON; DRUG RESISTANCE; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; NEUROPEPTIDES; PHORBOL ESTERS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; R-SNARE PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 23144441321     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03809     Document Type: Article

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