Motor neuron synapse and axon defects in a C. elegans alpha-tubulin mutant

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Baran, Renee ^a   Castelblanco, Liliana ^a   Tang, Garland ^a   Shapiro, Ian ^a   Goncharov, Alexandr ^b   Jin, Yishi ^b  

^a OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; BETA TUBULIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; TUBULIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LOCOMOTION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MICROTUBULE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOTONEURON; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE GROWTH; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; VERTEBRATA;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AXONS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTOR NEURONS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYNAPSES; TUBULIN;

EID: 77950522312     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009655     Document Type: Article

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