The RhoA-associated protein Citron-N controls dendritic spine maintenance by interacting with spine-associated Golgi compartments

EMBO Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 384-392

  Camera, Paola ^a   Schubert, Vanessa ^b   Pellegrino, Maurizio ^a   Berto, Gaia ^a   Vercelli, Alessandro ^a   Muzzi, Patrizia ^a   Hirsch, Emilio ^a   Altruda, Fiorella ^a   Dotti, Carlos G ^c   Di Cunto, Ferdinando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b Cavalieri Ottolenghi Scientific Institute   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; F ACTIN; PROTEIN CITRON N; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; GOLGI COMPLEX; IN VITRO STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DENDRITIC SPINES; GOLGI APPARATUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURONS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RATS;

CITRUS MEDICA; MUS;

EID: 48749131226     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2008.21     Document Type: Article

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