Drosophila indirect flight muscle specific Act88F actin mutants as a model system for studying congenital myopathies of the human ACTA1 skeletal muscle actin gene

Neuromuscular Disorders

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 363-374

  Haigh, Sarah E ^a   Salvi, Sheetal S ^c   Sevdali, Maria ^a   Stark, Meg ^a   Goulding, David ^b   Clayton, Jonathan D ^a,b   Bullard, Belinda ^a,b   Sparrow, John C ^a   Nongthomba, Upendra ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Muscle; Nemaline rods; Zebra bodies

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ALPHA SKELETAL MUSCLE ACTIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FLIGHT MUSCLE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; MUSCLE FIBRIL; MYOPATHY; NEMALINE MYOPATHY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMERE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLYING; GENETICS; HUMAN; INSECT; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; MUSCULAR DISEASES; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA; DROSOPHILA; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCLES; MUSCULAR DISEASES; MUTATION; MYOFIBRILS; PUPA;

EID: 77953120203     PISSN: 09608966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2010.03.008     Document Type: Article

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