Requirements for stress granule recruitment of fused in sarcoma (FUS) and TAR DNA-binding protein of 43 kDa (TDP-43)

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 23079-23094

  Bentmann, Eva ^a   Neumann, Manuela ^c   Tahirovic, Sabina ^b   Rodde, Ramona ^a   Dormann, Dorothee ^a   Haass, Christian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALS PATIENTS; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; C-TERMINAL FRAGMENTS; CYTOPLASMIC INCLUSION; DNA-BINDING PROTEIN; FUSED IN SARCOMATA; MARKER PROTEINS; MISLOCALIZATION; POINT MUTATIONS; POLY-BINDING PROTEIN 1; RNA BINDING DOMAINS; RNA-RECOGNITION MOTIFS; SPINAL CORDS; ZINC FINGER DOMAINS;

GRANULATION; PROTEINS; RNA; TAR; TUMORS;

AMINO ACIDS;

FUSED IN SARCOMA PROTEIN; RNA; TAR DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL GRANULE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; SPINAL CORD; STRESS GRANULE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BINDING SITES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; HELA CELLS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; INCLUSION BODIES; MUTATION; POLY(A)-BINDING PROTEIN I; RNA; RNA-BINDING PROTEIN FUS; SPINAL CORD; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 84863309952     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.328757     Document Type: Article

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