Rho GTPases: Signaling, migration, and invasion

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 261, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-12

  Schmitz, Arndt A P ^a   Govek, Eve Ellen ^a   Böttner, Benjamin ^a   Van Aelst, Linda ^a  

^a Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin cytoskeleton; Invasion; Motility; Rho GTPases; Signaling

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RHO FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL ADHESION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CYTOSKELETON; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034715895     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/excr.2000.5049     Document Type: Article

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