The GDP-GTP exchange factor collybistin: An essential determinant of neuronal gephyrin clustering

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 25, 2004, Pages 5816-5826

  Harvey, Kirsten ^a   Duguid, Ian C ^b   Alldred, Melissa J ^c   Beatty, Sarah E ^d   Ward, Hamish ^d   Keep, Nicholas H ^e   Lingenfelter, Sue E ^c   Pearce, Brian R ^a   Lundgren, Johan ^f   Owen, Michael J ^g   Smart, Trevor G ^b   Lüscher, Bernhard ^c   Rees, Mark I ^d,h   Harvey, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^g CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dendritic transport; Epilepsy; GABAA receptor; Glycine receptor; Hyperekplexia; Trafficking

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; COLLYBISTIN; GEPHYRIN; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; GLYCINE RECEPTOR BETA SUBUNIT; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; ISOPROTEIN; PLECKSTRIN; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARHGEF9 GENE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CB1 DOMAIN; CB2 DOMAIN; CB3 DOMAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC TRANSPORT; EMBRYO; EPILEPSY; EXON; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MALE; MAMMAL CELL; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOEA HOMOLOGY DOMAIN; MOUSE; MULTIMERIZATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PLECKSTRIN HOMOLOGY DOMAIN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SRC HOMOLOGY 3 DOMAIN; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAIN; STARTLE EPILEPSY; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BRAIN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; EPILEPSY; EXONS; FEMALE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEURONS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RATS; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 3042774411     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1184-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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