Rac GTPases control axon growth, guidance and branching

Nature

Volumn 416, Issue 6879, 2002, Pages 442-447

  Ng, Julian ^a   Nardine, Timothy ^a   Harms, Matthew ^a   Tzu, Julia ^a   Goldstein, Ann ^a   Sun, Yan ^b   Dietzl, Georg ^b   Dickson, Barry J ^b   Luo, Liqun ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS;

SIGNALLING PATHWAYS;

NEUROLOGY;

ACTIN; RAC PROTEIN; RAC1 PROTEIN; RAC2 PROTEIN; RHO FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA; MOSAICISM; MUTATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOVEMENT; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENES, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RAC1 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN;

BASIDIOMYCOTA;

EID: 0037187619     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/416442a     Document Type: Letter

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