Ras and its effectors

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-41

  Herrmann, Christian ^a   Nassar, Nicolas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GUANYLYLIMIDODIPHOSPHATE; ONCOPROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RAF PROTEIN; RAL PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; RAS-RELATED RAP PROTEINS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; HUMAN; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; ONCOGENE RAS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; GENES, RAS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GUANYLYL IMIDODIPHOSPHATE; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RAF; RAL GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RAP GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RAS PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030432118     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6107(96)00015-6     Document Type: Review

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