Membrane recruitment of the kinase cascade scaffold protein Ste5 by the Gβγ complex underlies activation of the yeast pheromone response pathway

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 2684-2697

  Pryciak, Peter M ^a   Huntress, Frederick A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterotrimeric G protein; MAP kinase; PAK Ste20 kinase; Rho Rac Cdc42 GTPase; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHEROMONE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032168881     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.17.2684     Document Type: Article

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