Phosphorylation of highly conserved neurofilament medium KSP repeats is not required for myelin-dependent radial axonal growth

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1277-1284

  Garcia, Michael L ^a,b   Rao, Mala V ^e   Fujimoto, Jiro ^b   Garcia, Virginia B ^a   Shah, Sameer B ^f   Crum, John ^b   Gotow, Takahiro ^g   Uchiyama, Yasuo ^h   Ellisman, Mark ^b,c   Calcutt, Nigel A ^d   Cleveland, Don W ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^g KOSHIEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Motor neuron; Myelination; Neurofilaments; Phosphorylation; Radial growth

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; LYSINE; MYELIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; PROLINE; SERINE; TUBULIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CYTOSKELETON; DNA SEQUENCE; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NERVE; MOUSE; MYELINATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SCIATIC NERVE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; AXONS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE KNOCK-IN TECHNIQUES; LYSINE; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE CRUSH; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROLINE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; SERINE;

EID: 59649087460     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3765-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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