α Internexin

A type IV intermediate filament of neurons

General references α Internexin

Yuan A, Rao MV, Sasaki T, Chen Y, Kumar A, Veeranna, Liem RK, Eyer J, Peterson AC, Julien JP & Nixon RA (2006). Alpha-internexin is structurally and functionally associated with the neurofilament triplet proteins in the mature CNS. Journal of Neuroscience 26: 10006-19.

Armstrong RA & Cairns NJ (2006). Topography of alpha-internexin-positive neuronal aggregates in 10 patients with neuronal intermediate filament inclusion disease. European Journal of Neurology 13: 528-32.

Ko TL, Chien CL & Lu KS (2005). The expression of alpha-internexin and peripherin in the developing mouse pineal gland. Journal of Biomedical Science 12: 777-89.

Chien CL, Liu TC, Ho CL & Lu KS (2005). Overexpression of neuronal intermediate filament protein alpha-internexin in PC12 cells. Journal of Neuroscience Research 80: 693-706.

Levavasseur F, Zhu Q & Julien JP (1999). No requirement of alpha-internexin for nervous system development and for radial growth of axons. Brain Research Molecular Brain Research 69: 104-12.

Ching GY, Chien CL, Flores R & Liem RK (1999). Overexpression of alpha-internexin causes abnormal neurofilamentous accumulations and motor coordination deficits in transgenic mice. Journal of Neuroscience 19: 2974-86.

Abumuhor IA, Spencer PH & Cohlberg JA (1998). The pathway of assembly of intermediate filaments from recombinant alpha-internexin. Journal of Structural Biology 123: 187-98.

Suzuki T, Mitake S, Okumura-Noji K, Shimizu H, Tada T & Fujii T (1997). Excitable membranes and synaptic transmission: postsynaptic mechanisms. Localization of alpha-internexin in the postsynaptic density of the rat brain. Brain Research 765: 74-80.

Benson DL, Mandell JW, Shaw G & Banker G (1996). Compartmentation of alpha-internexin and neurofilament triplet proteins in cultured hippocampal neurons. Journal of Neurocytology 25: 181-96.

Tanaka J, Ogawara M, Ando S, Shibata M, Yatani R, Kusagawa M & Inagaki M (1993). Phosphorylation of a 62 kd porcine alpha-internexin, a newly identified intermediate filament protein. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 196: 115-23.

Kaplan MP, Chin SS, Fliegner KH & Liem RK (1990). Alpha-internexin, a novel neuronal intermediate filament protein, precedes the low molecular weight neurofilament protein (NF-L) in the developing rat brain. Journal of Neuroscience 10: 2735-48.

Pachter JS & Liem RK (1985). alpha-Internexin, a 66-kD intermediate filament-binding protein from mammalian central nervous tissues. Journal of Cell Biology 101: 1316-22.