Regulation of Rho Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors by G Proteins

Advances in Protein Chemistry

Volumn 74, Issue , 2007, Pages 189-228

  Sternweis, Paul C ^a   Carter, Angela M ^a   Chen, Zhe ^a   Danesh, Shahab M ^a   Hsiung, Ying Fan ^a   Singer, William D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; RHO FACTOR; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CYTOSKELETON; DYNAMICS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HETEROTRIMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS;

MUS;

EID: 34548431690     PISSN: 00653233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-3233(07)74006-8     Document Type: Review

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