GEF means go: Turning on Rho GTPases with guanine nucleotide-exchange factors

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 167-180

  Rossman, Kent L ^a,b   Der, Channing J ^a,b   Sondek, John ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHOLIPID; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STIMULATION; DEVELOPMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; HUMAN; LIPID BILAYER; MAMMAL CELL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUTATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE TRANSPORT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ALLOSTERIC SITE; ANIMALS; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HUMANS; LIPID BILAYERS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NEURONS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RAS-GRF1; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA;

EID: 13444252631     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1587     Document Type: Review

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