Cell type-specific functions of Rho GTPases revealed by gene targeting in mice

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 58-64

  Wang, Lei ^a   Zheng, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CELL ENZYME; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TYPE; CLONAL VARIATION; CLONE; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE TARGETING; IN VIVO STUDY; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CDC42 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CHEMOTAXIS; CLONE CELLS; CYTOSKELETON; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE TARGETING; GENES, DOMINANT; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROPEPTIDES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PSEUDOPODIA; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 33846662015     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2006.11.009     Document Type: Article

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