Guanine nucleotide exchange factors for the Rho GTPases: A role in human disease?

Journal of Molecular Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 563-571

  Olson, M F ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; DBL; Exchange factor; Rho; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

CARCINOGENESIS; DEVELOPMENT; LEUKEMIA; METASTASIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCR; RETROVIRIDAE PROTEINS, ONCOGENIC; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 0029836564     PISSN: 09462716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001090050060     Document Type: Review

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