The pathway linking small GTP-binding proteins of the Rho family to cytoskeletal components and novel signaling kinase cascades

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 683-690

  Gutkind, J Silvio ^a   Vitale Cross, Lynn ^a  

^a Natl Institutes Dent/C   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Cytoskeleton; GTP binding proteins; Kinases; Oncogenes; Ras; Rho

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001599115     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/scdb.1996.0084     Document Type: Article

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