Spatial and temporal analysis of Rac activation during live neutrophil chemotaxis

Current Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 2029-2034

  Gardiner, Elisabeth M ^a   Pestonjamasp, Kersi N ^a   Bohl, Benjamin P ^a   Chamberlain, Chester ^a   Hahn, Klaus M ^a   Bokoch, Gary M ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; RAC PROTEIN;

CHEMOTAXIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENETIC REGULATION; HYPOTHESIS; NEUTROPHIL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEUTROPHILS; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 0036898598     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)01334-9     Document Type: Article

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