Impacts of dystrophin and utrophin domains on actin structural dynamics: Implications for therapeutic design

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 420, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 87-98

  Lin, Ava Yun ^a   Prochniewicz, Ewa ^a   Henderson, Davin M ^a   Li, Bin ^a   Ervasti, James M ^a   Thomas, David D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

gene therapy; muscular dystrophy; time resolved phosphorescence anisotropy; TPA

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; DYSTROPHIN; UTROPHIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DESIGN; GENE DELETION; GENE THERAPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TIME RESOLVED PHOSPHORESCENCE ANISOTROPY;

MUS;

EID: 84861819818     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: 10898638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2012.04.005     Document Type: Article

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