Tau deficiency leads to the upregulation of BAF-57, a protein involved in neuron-specific gene repression

FEBS Letters

Volumn 584, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2265-2270

  Gómez de Barreda, Elena ^a   Dawson, Hana N ^b   Vitek, Michel P ^b   Avila, Jesús ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED SOBRE ENFERMEDADES NEURODEGENERATIVAS CIBERNED   (Spain)

Author keywords

Axonogenesis; BAF 57; Gene expression; Neuron maturation; Nuclear tau; Tau k.o.

Indexed keywords

BAF 57 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; TAU PROTEINS; TUBULIN; UP-REGULATION;

MUS;

EID: 77952945262     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2010.03.032     Document Type: Article

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