Espins are multifunctional actin cytoskeletal regulatory proteins in the microvilli of chemosensory and mechanosensory cells

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 5445-5456

  Sekerková, Gabriella ^a,b   Zheng, Lili ^a,b   Loomis, Patricia A ^a,b   Changyaleket, Benjarat ^a,b   Whitlon, Donna S ^a,b   Mugnaini, Enrico ^a,b   Bartles, James R ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Merkel cell; M ller cell; PIP2; SH3 domain; Taste cell; Vomeronasal organ

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ADAPTOR PROTEIN; ESPIN DERIVATIVE; INSULIN RECEPTOR SUBSTRATE 1; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 4,5 BISPHOSPHATE; POLYPHOSPHOINOSITIDE; PROFILIN; PROLINE; PROTEIN P53; PROTEIN SH2; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WISKOTT ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CYTOSKELETON; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; HAIR CELL; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; LIGAND BINDING; MALE; MERKEL CELL; MICROVILLUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SRC HOMOLOGY 3 DOMAIN; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAIN; STEREOCILIUM; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VOMERONASAL ORGAN; WISKOTT ALDRICH SYNDROME;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CALCIUM; CHEMORECEPTORS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HAIR CELLS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROVILLI; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; POLYMERS; PROLINE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFECTION; VESTIBULAR DISEASES;

EID: 2942585053     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1279-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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