PAK promotes morphological changes by acting upstream of Rac

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 4328-4339

  Obermeier, Axel ^a   Ahmed, Sohail ^a,b   Manser, Edward ^a   Yen, Su Ching ^a   Hall, Christine ^b   Lim, Louis ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Guanine nucleotide exchange factor; Lamellipodia formation; Neurite outgrowth; PAK; Rac

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN P21; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SPREADING; CELL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROWTH CONE; NERVE GROWTH; NEURITE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MOVEMENT; GENETIC VECTORS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDES; JNK MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MICROINJECTIONS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NEURITES; PC12 CELLS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRECIPITATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RATS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032479975     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.15.4328     Document Type: Article

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