CED-2/CrkII and CED-10/Rac control phagocytosis and cell migration in Caenorhabditis elegans

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 131-136

  Reddien, P W ^a   Horvitz, H R ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN CED 10; PROTEIN CED 2; PROTEIN CED 5; PROTEIN CRKII; RAC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MIGRATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MOVEMENT; GONADS; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN KINASES; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0033771902     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35004000     Document Type: Article

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