Chemotaxis: Signalling the way forward

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 626-634

  Van Haastert, Peter J M ^a   Devreotes, Peter N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR; CYCLIC GMP; F ACTIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MYOSIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN CDC42; PROTEIN SH2; RAC PROTEIN; RHO FACTOR; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL CELL; CHEMOTAXIS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; FLAGELLUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPODIUM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CHEMOTAXIS; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; CYTOSKELETON; HETEROTRIMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEUTROPHILS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 3543144744     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1435     Document Type: Review

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