The diversity of Rab proteins in vesicle transport

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 496-504

  Novick, Peter ^a   Zerial, Marino ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; RAB PROTEIN;

ISOPRENYLATION; MEMBRANE VESICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030860083     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(97)80025-7     Document Type: Article

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