Rocks: Multifunctional kinases in cell behaviour

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 446-456

  Riento, Kirsi ^a   Ridley, Anne J ^a,b  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 (1 AMINOETHYL) N (4 PYRIDYL)CYCLOHEXANECARBOXAMIDE; CASPASE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; EZRIN; F ACTIN; FOCAL ADHESION KINASE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GUANOSINE 5' O (3 THIOTRIPHOSPHATE); GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; INTEGRIN RECEPTOR; LYSOPHOSPHATIDIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; MOESIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; NERVE PROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; PHORBOL ESTER; PROTEIN CDC42; PROTEIN CRMP2; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN P21; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RAC PROTEIN; RADIXIN; RHO KINASE; SOMATOMEDIN; SPHINGOSINE 1 PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SIZE; CENTROSOME; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSKELETON; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; STRESS FIBER; TIGHT JUNCTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INSULIN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0038024241     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1128     Document Type: Review

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