PAK4 kinase is essential for embryonic viability and for proper neuronal development

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 7122-7133

  Qu, Jian ^a   Li, Xiaofan ^a   Novitch, Bennet G ^a   Zheng, Ye ^a   Kohn, Matthew ^a   Xie, Jian Ming ^a   Kozinn, Spencer ^a   Bronson, Roderick ^b   Beg, Amer A ^a   Minden, Audrey ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; P21 ACTIVATED KINASE 4; PROTEIN CDC42; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEATH; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HEART DEVELOPMENT; INTERNEURON; MALE; MAMMAL CELL; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CDC42 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELL MOVEMENT; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOSKELETON; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOTYPE; HEART; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, GENETIC; NEURAL CREST; NEURONS; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0141819123     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.20.7122-7133.2003     Document Type: Article

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