The ubiquitin proteasome system in synaptic and axonal degeneration: A new twist to an old cycle

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 27-30

  Korhonen, Laura ^a,b   Lindholm, Dan ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Monoubiquitination; Neurodegeneration; Polyubiquitination; Synapse function; Wallerian degeneration

Indexed keywords

PROTEASOME; UBIQUITIN;

DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DROSOPHILA; DRUG TARGETING; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SHORT SURVEY; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE;

ANIMALS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; UBIQUITIN; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; RODENTIA; WALLERIA;

EID: 2442528179     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200311091     Document Type: Short Survey

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