Effecters for the Rho GTPases

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 95-102

  Aspenström, Pontus ^a  

^a LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ACTIN; P21 ACTIVATED KINASE; POLYPHOSPHOINOSITIDE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN); PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

APOPTOSIS; CELL CYCLE; CELL STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TUMOR GROWTH; CYTOSKELETON; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTINS; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYTOSKELETON; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; HUMANS; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL PHOSPHATES; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0032589269     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(99)80011-8     Document Type: Article

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