The Rho family G proteins play a critical role in muscle differentiation

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1580-1589

  Takano, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Komuro, Issei ^a   Oka, Toru ^a   Shiojima, Ichiro ^a   Hiroi, Yukio ^a   Mizuno, Takehiko ^a   Yazaki, Yoshio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MYOGENIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0031910828     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.3.1580     Document Type: Article

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