Presynaptic localization of SMN and hnRNP R in axon terminals of embryonic and postnatal mouse motoneurons

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Dombert, Benjamin ^a   Sivadasan, Rajeeve ^a   Simon, Christian M ^a   Jablonka, Sibylle ^a   Sendtner, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAMININ; LAMININ 111; LAMININ 221; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN HUD; RNA BINDING PROTEIN TDP43; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN R; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; HNRPR PROTEIN, MOUSE; SMN1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL TRANSPORT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSLATION; SMN GENE; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; SPLICEOSOME; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; DIAPHRAGM; HEK293 CELL LINE; METABOLISM; MOTONEURON; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SYNAPTOSOME;

ANIMALS; DIAPHRAGM; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; HEK293 CELLS; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR ENDPLATE; MOTOR NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SURVIVAL OF MOTOR NEURON 1 PROTEIN;

EID: 84908395084     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110846     Document Type: Article

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