Activation of the Lbc rho exchange factor proto-oncogene by truncation of an extended C terminus that regulates transformation and targeting

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 1334-1345

  Sterpetti, Paola ^a   Hack, Andrew A ^a,d   Bashar, Mariam P ^a   Park, Brian ^a   Cheng, Sou De ^b   Knoll, Joan H M ^b,c   Urano, Takeshi ^a,e   Feig, Larry A ^a   Toksoz, Deniz ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CHROMOSOME 7Q; DNA LIBRARY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0032930549     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.2.1334     Document Type: Article

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