Structural basis of agrin-LRP4-MuSK signaling

Genes and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 247-258

  Zong, Yinong ^a   Zhang, Bin ^b   Gu, Shenyan ^a   Lee, Kwangkook ^a   Zhou, Jie ^a   Yao, Guorui ^a   Figueiredo, Dwight ^b   Perry, Kay ^c   Mei, Lin ^b   Jin, Rongsheng ^a  

^a BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystal structure; Motoneurons; Neuromuscular junction; Receptor tyrosine kinase; Synapse; Synaptogenesis

Indexed keywords

AGRIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 4; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASE MUSK; TETRAMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AGRIN; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NEURONS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RATS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, LDL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84863011431     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.180885.111     Document Type: Article

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