Extracellular proteins organize the mechanosensory channel complex in C. elegans touch receptor neurons

Neuron

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 795-807

  Emtage, Lesley ^a,b   Gu, Guoqiang ^a   Hartwieg, Erika ^c   Chalfie, Martin ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Columbia Univ Coll Phys Surgs ^*  (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCLEROPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDERMIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE LOCATION; MECHANORECEPTOR; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SENSORY NERVE CELL;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; COLLAGEN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; MECHANORECEPTORS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOUCH;

EID: 9644289407     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2004.11.010     Document Type: Article

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