Specific proteolytic cleavage of agrin regulates maturation of the neuromuscular junction

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 123, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 3944-3955

  Bolliger, Marc F ^a   Zurlinden, Andreas ^a,b   Lüscher, Daniel ^a   Bütikofer, Lukas ^a   Shakhova, Olga ^a   Francolini, Maura ^c   Kozlov, Serguei V ^a   Cinelli, Paolo ^a   Stephan, Alexander ^a   Kistler, Andreas D ^a   Rülicke, Thomas ^a,e   Pelczar, Pawel ^a   Ledermann, Birgit ^a   Fumagalli, Guido ^d   Gloor, Sergio M ^a   Kunz, Beat ^a   Sonderegger, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NEUROTUNE AG   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^e Vetmeduni Vienna   (Austria)

Author keywords

Agrin; Neuromuscular junction; Neurotrypsin; Proteolysis; Synaptogenesis

Indexed keywords

AGRIN; NEUROTRYPSIN; PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

AGRIN; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; HEK293 CELLS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE FIBERS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

MUS;

EID: 78649748591     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.072090     Document Type: Article

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