Aspartoacylase is a regulated nuclear-cytoplasmic enzyme

FASEB Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Hershfield, Jeremy R ^a   Madhavarao, Chikkathur N ^a   Moffett, John R ^a   Benjamins, Joyce A ^b   Garbern, James Y ^b   Namboodiri, Aryan ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aminoacylase; Canavan disease; Kidney; N acetylaspartate; Oligodendrocytes; Tremor rat

Indexed keywords

ASPARTOACYLASE; AMIDASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CANAVAN DISEASE; CATALYSIS; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL STRAIN COS7; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY; LIPOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREMOR; WESTERN BLOTTING; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION;

RODENTIA;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; AMIDOHYDROLASES; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; RATS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 33845624090     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.05-5358fje     Document Type: Article

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