Cyclic AMP signalling in Dictyostelium: G-proteins activate separate Ras pathways using specific RasGEFs

EMBO Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 477-482

  Kae, Helmut ^a   Kortholt, Arjan ^b   Rehmann, Holger ^c   Insall, Robert H ^d   Van Haastert, Peter J M ^b   Spiegelman, George B ^a   Weeks, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; CYCLIC AMP; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; RAS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CYCLIC AMP; DICTYOSTELIUM; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RAS GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

DICTYOSTELIUM; MAMMALIA;

EID: 34247884549     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400936     Document Type: Article

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