The Survival of Motor Neuron Protein Acts as a Molecular Chaperone for mRNP Assembly

Cell Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1660-1673

  Donlin Asp, Paul G ^a   Fallini, Claudia ^a   Campos, Jazmin ^a   Chou, Ching Chieh ^a   Merritt, Megan E ^a   Phan, Han C ^a   Bassell, Gary J ^a   Rossoll, Wilfried ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

beta actin mRNA; IMP1; mRNA localization; mRNP; SMA; SMN; spinal muscular atrophy

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; CHAPERONE; IMP1 PROTEIN; MESSENGER RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACTIN; IMP-1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BETA ACTIN GENE; BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA TRANSLATION; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; CELL CULTURE; METABOLISM; MOTONEURON; PHYSIOLOGY;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ACTINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOSKELETON; HUMANS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SMN COMPLEX PROTEINS;

EID: 85013178200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.01.059     Document Type: Article

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