SYD-2 Liprin-α organizes presynaptic active zone formation through ELKS

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1479-1487

  Dai, Ya ^a   Taru, Hidenori ^a   Deken, Scott L ^b   Grill, Brock ^a   Ackley, Brian ^a   Nonet, Michael L ^b   Jin, Yishi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPRIN ALPHA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN ELKS; PROTEIN SYD 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOTOR NEURONS; MUTATION; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 33845259344     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1808     Document Type: Article

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