Rheb promotes cell growth as a component of the insulin/TOR signalling network

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 566-571

  Saucedo, Leslie J ^a   Gao, Xinsheng ^b   Chiarelli, Dominic A ^a   Li, Ling ^a   Pan, Duoija ^b   Edgar, Bruce A ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RAS PROTEIN; RHEB PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE INDUCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GROWTH ACCELERATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; GROWTH REGULATION; LARVA; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MALNUTRITION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; INSULIN; INTERPHASE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONOMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PLOIDIES; PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENES; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS; WING;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0038643484     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb996     Document Type: Article

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