Binding proteins for mRNA localization and local translation, and their dysfunction in genetic neurological disease

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 574-581

  Bassell, Gary J ^a   Kelic, Sofija ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

CELL SURVIVAL; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENETIC DISORDER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; RNA TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HEREDODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS, NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 5344265070     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2004.08.010     Document Type: Review

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