The atypical Rho family GTPase Wrch-1 regulates focal adhesion formation and cell migration

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 120, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1927-1934

  Chuang, Ya Yu ^a   Valster, Aline ^a,d   Coniglio, Salvatore J ^a,b   Backer, Jonathan M ^b   Symons, Marc ^a,b,c  

^a FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell migration; Focal adhesion; Myosin; Rho; Wrch 1

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN WRCH 1; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT REGULATED CDC42 HOMOLOG;

ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FOCAL ADHESION; FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MIGRATION INHIBITION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; WOUND HEALING;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; CELL MOVEMENT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FOCAL ADHESIONS; GENE EXPRESSION; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; JNK MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 34250830244     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.03456     Document Type: Article

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