Isolation of the gene coding for caenorhabditis elegans Rac2 homologue, a Ras-related small GTP-binding protein

Gene

Volumn 180, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 217-219

  Chen, Weining ^a   Yap, Seow Fong ^a   Lim, Louis ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DNA sequencing; Exon; Nematode; Rho subfamily; Sequence alignment

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA LIBRARY; GENE ISOLATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, HELMINTH; GENES, HELMINTH; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0030597328     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00414-3     Document Type: Article

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