Linking Ras to myosin function: RasGEF Q, a Dictyostelium exchange factor for RasB, affects myosin II functions

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 181, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 747-760

  Mondal, Subhanjan ^a   Bakthavatsalam, Deenadayalan ^a,d   Steimle, Paul ^b   Gassen, Berthold ^a   Rivero, Francisco ^a,c   Noegel, Angelika A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; MYOSIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; PROTEIN RASB; PROTEIN RASGEF Q; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL POLARITY; CELL SELECTION; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSKELETON; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CHEMOTAXIS; CYCLIC AMP; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOSIN TYPE II; MYOSINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RAS GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; RAS PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 44649140579     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 00219525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200710111     Document Type: Article

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