The polypeptide composition of moving and stationary neurofilaments in cultured sympathetic neurons

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 299-309

  Yan, Yanping ^a,b   Jensen, Kitty ^a   Brown, Anthony ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon; Cytoskeleton; Internexin; Neurofilament; Peripherin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERNEXIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; PERIPHERIN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN NFH; PROTEIN NFL; PROTEIN NFM; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL PERMEABILIZATION; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MOUSE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NEUROFILAMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOSKELETON; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEURONS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 33947423313     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: 10970169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.20184     Document Type: Article

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