Genetic deletion of the Pten tumor suppressor gene promotes cell motility by activation of Rac1 and Cdc42 GTPases

Current Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 401-404

  Liliental, Joanna ^a   Moon, Sun Young ^a   Lesche, Ralf ^a   Mamillapalli, Ramanaiah ^c   Li, Daming ^c   Zheng, Yi ^b   Sun, Hong ^c   Wu, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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EID: 0343183328     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(00)00417-6     Document Type: Article

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