alpha Spectrin

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Garbe, D. S., Das, A., Dubreuil, R. R. and Bashaw, G. J. (2007). β-Spectrin functions independently of Ankyrin to regulate the establishment and maintenance of axon connections in the Drosophila embryonic CNS. Development 134: 273-284. Medline abstract: 17121810

Gelot, A., et al. (1994). Developmental change of alpha-spectrin mRNA in the rat brain. Brain Res. Dev. Brain Res. 81: 240-246.

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Hammarlund, M., Davis, W. S. and Jorgensen, E. M. (2000). Mutations in ß-Spectrin disrupt axon outgrowth and aarcomere structure. J. Cell Biol. 149: 931-942.

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Lee, J. K., et al. (1997). alpha-Spectrin is required for ovarian follicle monolayer integrity in Drosophila melanogaster. Development 124: 353-362

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Lin, H. and Spradling, A. C. (1995). Fusome asymmetry and oocyte determination in Drosophila. Dev. Genet. 1645: 6-12.

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Salomao, M., (2006). Mammalian alpha I-spectrin is a neofunctionalized polypeptide adapted to small highly deformable erythrocytes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 103(3): 643-8. Medline abstract: 16407147

Scoles, D. R., et al. (1998). Neurofibromatosis 2 tumour suppressor schwannomin interacts with betaII-spectrin. Nat. Genet. 18(4): 354-359.

Simonovic, M., Zhang, Z., Cianci, C. D., Steitz, T. A. and Morrow, J. S. (2006). Structure of the calmodulin alphaII-spectrin complex provides insight into the regulation of cell plasticity. J. Biol. Chem. 281(45): 34333-40. Medline abstract: 16945920

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Viel, A. and Branton, D. (1994). Interchain binding at the tail end of the Drosophila spectrin molecule. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 91: 10839-10843.

Voas, M. G., (2007). alphaII-spectrin is essential for assembly of the nodes of Ranvier in myelinated axons. Curr. Biol. 17(6): 562-8. Medline abstract: 17331725

Volk, T. (1992). A new member of the spectrin superfamily may participate in the formation of embryonic muscle attachments in Drosophila. Development 116: 721-30.

Winardi, R., et al. (1995). Evolutionarily conserved alternative pre-mRNA splicing regulates structure and function of the spectrin-actin binding domain of erythroid protein 4.1. Blood 86: 4315-4322.

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Wood, S. J. and Slater, C. R. (1998). beta-spectrin is colocalized with both voltage-gated sodium channels and AnkyrinG at the adult rat neuromuscular junction. J. Cell Biol. 140(3): 675-684.

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Zhang, P., et al. (1995). Solution structure of the pleckstrin homology domain of Drosophila beta-spectrin. Structure 3: 1185-1195.

Zhou, D., Ursitti, J. A. and Bloch, R. J. (1998). Developmental expression of spectrins in rat skeletal muscle. Mol. Biol. Cell 9(1): 47-61.

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date revised: 25 September 2007

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