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

Dystrophin: The protein product of the duchenne muscular dystrophy locus

1987 • 4,477 citations

Primary structure of dystrophin-associated glycoproteins linking dystrophin to the extracellular matrix

1992 • 1,381 citations

A role for the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex as a transmembrane linker between laminin and actin

1993 • 1,352 citations

Membrane organization of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex

1991 • 1,321 citations

Characterization of Dystrophin in Muscle-Biopsy Specimens from Patients with Duchenne's or Becker's Muscular Dystrophy

1988 • 910 citations

Cytoskeleton—Plasma Membrane Interactions

1992 • 792 citations

The Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene product is localized in sarcolemma of human skeletal muscle

1988 • 658 citations

Duchenne muscular dystrophy: Deficiency of dystrophin at the muscle cell surface

1988 • 617 citations

Immunostaining of skeletal and cardiac muscle surface membrane with antibody against Duchenne muscular dystrophy peptide

1988 • 564 citations

Association of dystrophin-related protein with dystrophin-associated proteins in mdx mouse muscle

1992 • 489 citations

An autosomal transcript in skeletal muscle with homology to dystrophin

1989 • 478 citations

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

1987 • 467 citations

Immunoelectron microscopic localization of dystrophin in myofibres

1988 • 447 citations

Primary structure of dystrophin-related protein

1992 • 380 citations

Spectrin-Based Membrane Skeleton: A Multipotential Adaptor Between Plasma Membrane and Cytoplasm

1991 • 373 citations

Dystrophin-related protein is localized to neuromuscular junctions of adult skeletal muscle

1991 • 368 citations

Structure and expression of a rat agrin

1991 • 310 citations

Dystrophin–glycoprotein complex: Its role in the molecular pathogenesis of muscular dystrophies

1994 • 309 citations

Localization of Acetylcholine Receptor by ¹²⁵ I-Labeled α-Bungarotoxin Binding at Mouse Motor Endplates

1974 • 306 citations

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

1993 • 305 citations

Laminin-binding protein 120 from brain is closely related to the dystrophin-associated glycoprotein, dystroglycan, and binds with high affinity to the major heparin binding domain of laminin

1993 • 282 citations

The distribution of α‐bungarotoxin binding sites on mammalian skeletal muscle developing in vivo

1977 • 266 citations

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

1992 • 252 citations

Components of Torpedo electric organ and muscle that cause aggregation of acetylcholine receptors on cultured muscle cells.

1984 • 251 citations

The postsynaptic 43k protein clusters muscle nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in xenopus oocytes

1990 • 237 citations

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

1992 • 231 citations

The subcellular distribution of dystrophin in mouse skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle.

1991 • 228 citations

Regulation of Cell Surface Polarity from Bacteria to Mammals

1992 • 221 citations

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

1992 • 212 citations

Two forms of mouse syntrophin, a 58 kd dystrophin-associated protein, differ in primary structure and tissue distribution

1993 • 209 citations

Identification of a chromosome 6-encoded dystrophin-related protein.

1990 • 205 citations

ACh Receptor-Rich Membrane Domains Organized in Fibroblasts by Recombinant 43-Kilodalton Protein

1991 • 202 citations

cDNA that encodes active agrin

1992 • 199 citations

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

1989 • 163 citations

The 87K postsynaptic membrane protein from torpedo is a protein-tyrosine kinase substrate homologous to dystrophin

1993 • 158 citations

Distinguishing roles of the membrane-cytoskeleton and cadherin mediated cell-cell adhesion in generating different Na+,K(+)-ATPase distributions in polarized epithelia.

1993 • 155 citations

Primary structure and muscle-specific expression of the 50-kDa dystrophin-associated glycoprotein (adhalin).

1993 • 155 citations

Developmental changes in acetylcholine receptor aggregates at rat skeletal neuromuscular junctions

1981 • 153 citations

An unusual beta-spectrin associated with clustered acetylcholine receptors.

1989 • 150 citations

Motor neurons contain agrin-like molecules.

1988 • 131 citations

Regulation of agrin-induced acetylcholine receptor aggregation by Ca++ and phorbol ester.

1988 • 130 citations

Tissue distribution of the dystrophin-related gene product and expression in the mdx and dy mouse.

1991 • 127 citations

Structure and chromosomal localization of the mammalian agrin gene

1992 • 115 citations

Agrin mediates cell contact-induced acetylcholine receptor clustering

1991 • 113 citations

Structural domains of agrin required for clustering of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.

1994 • 113 citations

Clustering and immobilization of acetylcholine receptors by the 43-kD protein: a possible role for dystrophin-related protein.

1993 • 107 citations

Transcriptional regulation of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor genes during muscle development.

1986 • 96 citations

Association of the Mr 58,000 postsynaptic protein of electric tissue with Torpedo dystrophin and the Mr 87,000 postsynaptic protein.

1992 • 87 citations

Aggregating factor from Torpedo electric organ induces patches containing acetylcholine receptors, acetylcholinesterase, and butyrylcholinesterase on cultured myotubes.

1986 • 83 citations

Early appearance of and neuronal contribution to agrin-like molecules at embryonic frog nerve-muscle synapses formed in culture

1992 • 77 citations

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

1990 • 77 citations

The putative agrin receptor binds ligand in a calcium-dependent manner and aggregates during agrin-induced acetylcholine receptor clustering

1991 • 75 citations

Synthesis and Transport of Agrin-Like Molecules in Motor Neurons

1990 • 68 citations

Mechanism of agrin‐induced acetylcholine receptor aggregation

1992 • 64 citations

Dystrophin is a component of the subsynaptic membrane.

1991 • 52 citations

Glycosaminoglycan variants in the C2 muscle cell line

1989 • 45 citations

Heparin and heparan sulfate partially inhibit induction of acetylcholine receptor accumulation by nerve in Xenopus culture

1989 • 36 citations

Acetylcholine receptor clustering and triton solubility: Neural effect

1988 • 18 citations