Signaling specificity: The RTK/RAS/MAP kinase pathway in metazoans

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 145-149

  Tan, Patrick B O ^a   Kim, Stuart K ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL STRAIN; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER REGION; GENE TARGETING; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE REACTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RAS PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0033118791     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(99)01694-7     Document Type: Review

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