Signal dispersal and transduction through the endocytic pathway

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 213-224

  González Gaitán, Marcos ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; LIGAND; SMAD2 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MEMBRANE; DIFFUSION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOSOME; EXOCYTOSIS; LYSOSOME; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MEMBRANE; DIFFUSION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOSOMES; LIGANDS; LIPID METABOLISM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0037334990     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1053     Document Type: Review

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