Gene selection, alternative splicing, and post-translational processing regulate neuroligin selectivity for β-neurexins

Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 42, 2006, Pages 12816-12827

  Comoletti, Davide ^a   Flynn, Robyn E ^a   Boucard, Antony A ^b   Demeler, Borries ^d   Schirf, Virgil ^d   Shi, Jianxin ^a   Jennings, Lori L ^a   Newlin, Helen R ^a   Südhof, Thomas C ^b,c   Taylor, Palmer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANES; CENTRIFUGATION; GENES; MONOMERS; SEDIMENTATION; STOICHIOMETRY;

GENE SELECTION; MAMMALIAN SPECIES; NEUROLIGINS; PRESYNAPTIC MATURATION;

PROTEINS;

BETA NEUREXIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NEUREXIN; NEUROLIGIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTAGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RNA SPLICING; STOICHIOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; WILD TYPE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33750348559     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi0614131     Document Type: Article

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