Unusually rapid evolution of Neuroligin-4 in mice

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 6421-6426

  Bolliger, Marc F ^a   Pei, Jimin ^a   Maxeiner, Stephan ^a   Boucard, Antony A ^a   Grishin, Nick V ^a,b   Südhof, Thomas C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Cell adhesion molecule; Neurexin synapse

Indexed keywords

NEUREXIN; NEUROLIGIN; NEUROLIGIN 4; CARRIER PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ISOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NLGN4 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BIOLOGY; CELL STRAIN COS1; CERCOPITHECUS; CHROMOSOME; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NERVE CELL; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COS CELLS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEURONS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 44049106471     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0801383105     Document Type: Article

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