Acetylcholine receptors direct rapsyn clusters to the neuromuscular synapse in zebrafish

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 5475-5481

  Ono, Fumihito ^a,b   Mandel, Gail ^c,d   Brehm, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Stony Brook University   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Movement; Mutant; Myasthenia; Neuromuscular disease; Sofa potato; Synapse development

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; LEUCINE; PROLINE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RAPSYN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTANT; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SWIMMING; WILD TYPE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUTATION; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; SWIMMING; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 3042643930     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0851-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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