Muscle-specific RING finger-2 (MURF-2) is important for microtubule, intermediate filament and sarcomeric M-line maintenance in striated muscle development

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 117, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 3175-3188

  McElhinny, Abigail S ^a   Perry, Cynthia N ^a   Witt, Christian C ^c   Labeit, Siegfried ^c   Gregorio, Carol C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c Inst Anasthesiol Oper Intensivmed   (Germany)

Author keywords

M line; Microtubules; MURF; Myofibrillogenesis; Myofibrils; Titin

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; CONNECTIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; DESMIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; MUSCLE SPECIFIC RING FINGER 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIMENTIN;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL FUSION; CELL LEVEL; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; HEART MUSCLE CELL; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; KNOCKOUT GENE; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR SIZE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE FIBER CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBRIL; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SARCOMERE; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; CYTOPLASM; DESMIN; DOWN-REGULATION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; MICROTUBULES; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCLES; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SARCOMERES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; VIMENTIN;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 4344598187     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.01158     Document Type: Review

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