Identification of a Novel Alternatively Spliced Agrin mRNA That Is Preferentially Expressed in Non-neuronal Cells

DNA sequencing with chain-terminating inhibitors

1977 • 69,181 citations

Single-Step Method of RNA Isolation by Acid Guanidinium Thiocyanate–Phenol–Chloroform Extraction

1987 • 64,270 citations

Single-step method of RNA isolation by acid guanidinium thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform extraction

1987 • 45,673 citations

The Agrin Hypothesis

1990 • 637 citations

Dystroglycan-α, a dystrophin-associated glycoprotein, is a functional agrin receptor

1994 • 509 citations

Identification of agrin, a synaptic organizing protein from Torpedo electric organ.

1987 • 467 citations

A role for dystrophin-associated glycoproteins and utrophin in agrin-induced AChR clustering

1994 • 369 citations

Structure and expression of a rat agrin

1991 • 310 citations

Identification and purification of an agrin receptor from torpedo postsynaptic membranes: A heteromeric complex related to the dystroglycans

1994 • 307 citations

The ability of agrin to cluster AChRs depends on alternative splicing and on cell surface proteoglycans

1993 • 305 citations

Agrin Is a Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycan

1995 • 281 citations

Dystroglycan binds nerve and muscle agrin

1994 • 272 citations

The agrin gene codes for a family of basal lamina proteins that differ in function and distribution

1992 • 252 citations

Acetylcholine receptor-aggregating activity of agrin isoforms and mapping of the active site.

1995 • 232 citations

Agrin released by motor neurons induces the aggregation of acetylcholine receptors at neuromuscular junctions

1992 • 231 citations

RNA splicing regulates agrin-mediated acetylcholine receptor clustering activity on cultured myotubes

1992 • 212 citations

cDNA that encodes active agrin

1992 • 199 citations

Agrin-like molecules at synaptic sites in normal, denervated, and damaged skeletal muscles.

1987 • 177 citations

Agrin-induced specializations contain cytoplasmic, membrane, and extracellular matrix-associated components of the postsynaptic apparatus

1989 • 163 citations

Motor neurons contain agrin-like molecules.

1988 • 131 citations

Structure and chromosomal localization of the mammalian agrin gene

1992 • 115 citations

Inhibition of agrin-induced acetylcholine-receptor aggregation by heparin, heparan sulfate, and other polyanions

1990 • 77 citations

Cell-specific regulation of agrin RNA splicing in the chick ciliary ganglion

1994 • 74 citations

Distribution of agrin mRNAs in the chick embryo nervous system

1994 • 65 citations

Analysis of proteoglycan expression in developing chicken brain: Characterization of a heparan sulfate proteoglycan that interacts with the neural cell adhesion molecule

1995 • 64 citations

Comparison of agrin-like proteins from the extracellular matrix of chicken kidney and muscle with neural agrin, a synapse organizing protein

1991 • 60 citations

A muscle cell variant defective in glycosaminoglycan biosynthesis forms nerve-induced but not spontaneous clusters of the acetylcholine receptor and the 43 kDa protein

1993 • 57 citations

Agrin-induced reorganization of extracellular matrix components on cultured myotubes: relationship to AChR aggregation.

1990 • 53 citations

Developmental Expression and Alternative Splicing of Chick Agrin RNA

1993 • 48 citations

Agrin-induced clustering of acetylcholine receptors: a cytoskeletal link.

1994 • 47 citations

Molecular characterization of EAP-300: a high molecular weight, embryonic polypeptide contning an amino acid repeat comprised of multiple leucine-zipper motifs

1995 • 21 citations