Schistosoma mansoni: Cloning and characterization of the Ras homologue

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 280-283

  Kampkötter, Andreas ^a   Ridgers, Ian ^b   Johnston, David A ^b   Rollinson, David ^b   Kunz, Werner ^a   Grevelding, Christoph G ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CDNA sequence; EST; Ras; Schistosoma mansoni; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; RAS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLONING; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EID: 19244382603     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4377     Document Type: Article

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