HECT-type E3 ubiquitin ligases in nerve cell development and synapse physiology

FEBS Letters

Volumn 589, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 1635-1643

  Ambrozkiewicz, Mateusz Cyryl ^a   Kawabe, Hiroshi ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Homologous to E6 AP C terminus; Neuronal development; Synaptic transmission; Ubiquitylation

Indexed keywords

HECT UBA AND WWE DOMAIN CONTAINING 1; NEDD4 1 PROTEIN; NEDD4 2 PROTEIN; SMAD UBIQUITINATION REGULATORY FACTOR 1; UBIQUITIN LIGASE E3A; UBIQUITIN LIGASE E3B; UBIQUITIN LIGASE E3C; UBIQUITIN LIGASE E6 ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE E3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE;

AUTISM; BRAIN DISEASE; BROOKS WISNIEWSKI BROWN SYNDROME; CELL POLARITY; DENDRITOGENESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GENE DELETION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; KAUFMAN OCULOCEREBROFACIAL SYNDROME; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEURITOGENESIS; NEURONAL HOMEOSTASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; UBIQUITINATION; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN DISEASES; CELL POLARITY; HUMANS; NEURONS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSES; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

EID: 84930271462     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2015.05.009     Document Type: Review

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