Cytoskeletal signaling: Is memory encoded in microtubule lattices by CaMKII phosphorylation?

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Craddock, Travis J A ^a   Tuszynski, Jack A ^a,b   Hameroff, Stuart ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CAMS; CELL SIGNALING; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ENZYMES; MOLECULAR MODELING; NEURONS; PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL ENCODING;

BRAIN NEURONS; CA 2+; CYTOSKELETAL; ENCODINGS; KINASE DOMAINS; MEMBRANE COMPONENTS; MICROTUBULES; ORDERED ARRAY; SYNAPTIC CONNECTIONS; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANES;

CALMODULIN;

CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; TUBULIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; SOLID STATE; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84858787565     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002421     Document Type: Article

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