Small GTPase Rac1: Structure, localization, and expression of the human gene

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 277, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 741-751

  Matos, Paulo ^a   Skaug, Jennifer ^b   Marques, Bárbara ^a   Beck, Sebastian ^a   Veríssimo, Fátima ^a   Gespach, Christian ^c   Boavida, Maria Guida ^a   Scherer, Stephen W ^b   Jordan, Peter ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Chromosome 7; Colorectal cancer; Housekeeping gene; Polyadenylation; Signal transduction; Small GTPase Rac1

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN RAC1B; RAC PROTEIN; RAC1 PROTEIN; RHO FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME 7P; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE STRUCTURE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0034597710     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2000.3743     Document Type: Article

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