A GTP-exchange factor required for cell orientation

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6663, 1998, Pages 195-198

  Nern, Aljoscha ^a   Arkowitz, Robert A ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS GROWTH; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ALLELES; CDC42 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; MUTATION; PEPTIDES; PHEROMONES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 0032495489     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/34458     Document Type: Article

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