Epac: A new cAMP target and new avenues in cAMP research

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 733-738

  Bos, Johannes L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN EPAC; PROTEIN RAP2; RAP PROTEIN; RAP1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TARGETING; RESEARCH; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CYCLIC AMP; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HUMANS; INSULIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0041836339     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1197     Document Type: Review

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