Ges, a human GTPase of the Rad/Gem/Kir family, promotes endothelial cell sprouting and cytoskeleton reorganization

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 149, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1107-1115

  Pan, Julie Y ^a   Fieles, William E ^a   White, Anne M ^a   Egerton, Mark M ^a,b   Silberstein, David S ^a  

^a ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^b Drug Metabolism Pharmacokinetics Clinical Pharmacology   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Angiogenesis; Matrigel; Morphology change

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN; CYTOSKELETON; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; LAMININ; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROTEOGLYCANS; RAS PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFECTION; UMBILICAL ARTERIES; VINCULIN;

EID: 0034729198     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.149.5.1107     Document Type: Article

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