A SMNΔ7 read-through product confers functionality to the SMNΔ7 protein

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 442, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 54-58

  Mattis, Virginia B ^a   Bowerman, Melissa ^b   Kothary, Rashmi ^b   Lorson, Christian L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Read through; Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA); Survival motor neuron (SMN)

Indexed keywords

SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMN PROTEIN (SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY);

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; HUMANS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 47749101660     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.06.059     Document Type: Article

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