Signal transduction: Hanging on a scaffold

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 211-216

  Burack, W Richard ^a   Shaw, Andrey S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

DROSOPHILA; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0034009390     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(99)00078-2     Document Type: Review

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