Homeoprotein Intercellular Transfer, the Hidden Face of Cell-Penetrating Peptides

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 683, Issue , 2011, Pages 249-257

  Prochiantz, Alain ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Axon guidance; Critical periods; Homeoprotein transcription factors; Morphogens; Neurology; Patterns; Plasticity; Psychiatry; Signaling

Indexed keywords

CELL PENETRATING PEPTIDE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BINOCULAR VISION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NERVE FIBER; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL-PENETRATING PEPTIDES; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 79952201089     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-919-2_18     Document Type: Chapter

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