Rac function and regulation during Drosophila development

Nature

Volumn 416, Issue 6879, 2002, Pages 438-442

  Hakeda Suzuki, Satoko ^a   Ng, Julian ^b   Tzu, Julia ^b   Dietzl, Georg ^a   Sun, Yan ^a   Harms, Matthew ^b   Nardine, Tim ^b   Luo, Liqun ^b   Dickson, Barry J ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; GENES; MORPHOLOGY; PROTEINS;

MORPHOGENESIS;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; RAC PROTEIN; RAC1 PROTEIN; RAC2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

GENETICS;

ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; CYTOSKELETON; DEVELOPMENT; DROSOPHILA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTANT; MYOBLAST; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL POLARITY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; MALE; MUTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RAC1 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 0037187546     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/416438a     Document Type: Letter

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