Tau proteins with FTDP‐17 mutations have a reduced ability to promote microtubule assembly
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- 23 October 1998
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 437 (3) , 207-210
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0014-5793(98)01217-4
Abstract
Recently exonic and intronic mutations in the gene for microtubule‐associated protein tau have been discovered in cases of familial frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (F...Keywords
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