Ras oncogenes: Split personalities

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 517-531

  Karnoub, Antoine E ^a   Weinberg, Robert A ^a  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

2 (2 CHLORO 4 IODOANILINO) N CYCLOPROPYLMETHOXY 3,4 DIFLUOROBENZAMIDE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYSMETHYNIL; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; METHOTREXATE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN FARNESYLTRANSFERASE INHIBITOR; RAF PROTEIN; RAL PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; SORAFENIB;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANATOMY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CANCER INHIBITION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; CARCINOMA; CELL FUNCTION; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; DRUG DESIGN; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE H RAS; ONCOGENE K RAS; ONCOGENE N RAS; ONCOGENE RAS; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, RAS; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RAS PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 45849130495     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2438     Document Type: Review

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