Glycosylation regulates Notch signalling

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 786-797

  Haines, Nicola ^a   Irvine, Kenneth D ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; FUCOSE; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE; GLYCAN DERIVATIVE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PROTEOHEPARAN SULFATE;

CELL FATE; CHO CELL; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DROSOPHILA; EPISTASIS; FUCOSYLATION; GENE SILENCING; HYDROXYLATION; LIGAND BINDING; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW;

EID: 0141995063     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1228     Document Type: Review

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