Rac and Nuclear Translocation of Signal Transducers and Activators of Transcription Factors

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 439, Issue , 2008, Pages 171-180

  Kawashima, Toshiyuki ^a   Kitamura, Toshio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; DIGITONIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; KARYOPHERIN ALPHA; KARYOPHERIN BETA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RAC PROTEIN; RAC1 PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; STAT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MGCRACGAP; STAT5 PROTEIN;

CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; ARMYWORM; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; DRUG EFFECT; HELA CELL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL NUCLEUS; DIGITONIN; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; RAC1 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; SPODOPTERA; STAT TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; STAT5 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 45549100578     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(07)00413-2     Document Type: Review

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