Loss of fused in sarcoma (FUS) promotes pathological Tau splicing

EMBO Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 759-764

  Orozco, Denise ^a,b   Tahirovic, Sabina ^a   Rentzsch, Kristin ^a   Schwenk, Benjamin M ^a   Haass, Christian ^a,c   Edbauer, Dieter ^a,c  

^a GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^b MPI of Biochemistry   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

FUS; neurodegeneration; RNA binding protein; splicing; Tau (MAPT)

Indexed keywords

FUSED IN SARCOMA PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; TAU PROTEIN;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN NERVE CELL; EXON; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CYTOSKELETON; EXONS; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENES, REPORTER; GROWTH CONES; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; NERVE DEGENERATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 84864868840     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2012.90     Document Type: Article

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