miR-8 controls synapse structure by repression of the actin regulator Enabled

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 141, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1864-1874

  Loya, Carlos M ^a,c   McNeill, Elizabeth M ^a   Bao, Hong ^b   Zhang, Bing ^b   Van Vactor, David ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c Sage Therapeutics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Enabled; miRNA; NMJ; SSR; Synapse

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIN CAPPING PROTEIN; ENABLED PROTEIN; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 8; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; GENE REPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOSOME;

DROSOPHILA; ENABLED; MIRNA; NMJ; SSR; SYNAPSE;

ACTIN CAPPING PROTEINS; ACTINS; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LARVA; MICRORNAS; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84899629679     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.105791     Document Type: Article

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