The emerging role of the tubulin code: From the tubulin molecule to neuronal function and disease

Cytoskeleton

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 521-550

  Chakraborti, Soumyananda ^a,b   Natarajan, Kathiresan ^a,b   Curiel, Julian ^c   Janke, Carsten ^a,b   Liu, Judy ^c  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

microtubules; tubulin isotypes; tubulin mutations; tubulin posttranslational modification; tubulinopathies

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; BETA TUBULIN; TUBULIN;

AGYRIA; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MICROCEPHALY; MICROGYRIA; MICROTUBULE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICROTUBULES; MUTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEURONS; TUBULIN;

EID: 84966558945     PISSN: 19493584     EISSN: 19493592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.21290     Document Type: Review

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