The love-hate relationship between Ras and Notch

Genes and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 1825-1839

  Sundaram, Meera V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Drosophila; Notch; Ras; Signaling

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PROTEIN P14; RAS PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TYPE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HERMAPHRODITISM; MITOSIS INDEX; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; REPRESSOR GENE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; RAS PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 23944506654     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1330605     Document Type: Review

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