Targeted deletion of the muscular dystrophy gene myotilin does not perturb muscle structure or function in mice

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 244-252

  Moza, Monica ^a   Mologni, Luca ^a,e   Trokovic, Ras ^a,b   Faulkner, Georgine ^c   Partanen, Juha ^b   Carpén, Olli ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^d TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; F ACTIN; MYOPALLADIN; MYOTILIN; PALLADIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; GENE; GENE DELETION; HEART MUSCLE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LIMB GIRDLE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; LIMB GIRDLE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY TYPE 1A; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE FIBRIL; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; MYOFIBRILLAR MYOPATHY; MYOFILAMENT; MYOPATHY; MYOTILIN GENE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SARCOLEMMA; SARCOMERE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPHEROID BODY MYOPATHY; Z DISK;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCLES; MUTATION, MISSENSE; MYOCARDIUM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SARCOMERES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33845801599     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00561-06     Document Type: Article

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