Rpgr ORF15 connects to the usher protein network through direct interactions with multiple whirlin isoforms

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1519-1529

  Wright, Rachel N ^a   Hong, Dong Hyun ^a   Perkins, Brian ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; PDZ PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WHIRLIN; DFNB31 PROTEIN, HUMAN; EYE PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RPGR PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING ASSAY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA GTPASE REGULATOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; USHER SYNDROME; WESTERN BLOTTING; YEAST; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE MUTANT; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RETINA; RETINA DEGENERATION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; EYE PROTEINS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84860593661     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-8845     Document Type: Article

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