The actin cross-linking protein AFAP120 regulates axon elongation in a tyrosine phosphorylation-dependent manner

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 444, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 132-136

  Harder, Jennifer ^a   Xu, Xiaohua ^a   Letourneau, Paul ^a   Lanier, Lorene M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin cytoskeleton; AFAP; Axon elongation; Growth cone; Src kinase

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIN FILAMENT ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 120; PROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ELONGATION; CELL MOTILITY; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; CYTOSKELETON; EMBRYO; GROWTH CONE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CEREBELLUM; GROWTH CONES; MICE; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEURITES; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TYROSINE;

EID: 51349089461     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.08.036     Document Type: Article

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