The cool-2/α-Pix protein mediates a Cdc42-Rac signaling cascade

Current Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-10

  Baird, Dan ^a   Feng, Qiyu ^a   Cerione, Richard A ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; P21 ACTIVATED KINASE; PROTEIN CDC42; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RAC PROTEIN; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR 6;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL STRAIN COS1; CERCOPITHECUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PLASMID; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CDC42 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 11844280881     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.12.040     Document Type: Article

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