Positive and negative tissue-specific signaling by a nematode epidermal growth factor receptor

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 779-793

  Lesa, Giovanni M ^a   Sternberg, Paul W ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FERTILITY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

EID: 0030907541     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.8.5.779     Document Type: Article

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