Chemoattractant-induced Ras activation during Dictyostelium aggregation

EMBO Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 602-606

  Kae, Helmut ^a   Lim, Chinten James ^a   Spiegelman, George B ^a   Weeks, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

cAMP; Dictyostelium; Ras

Indexed keywords

CHEMOATTRACTANT; CYCLIC AMP; PROTEIN BYR2; RAF PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; RASC PROTEIN; RASG PROTEIN; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL LINE; CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS; CYCLIC AMP; DICTYOSTELIUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MAP KINASE KINASE KINASES; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RAF; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RAS PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; MAMMALIA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 4344571626     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400151     Document Type: Article

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