Spatiotemporal Regulation of Ras Activity Provides Directional Sensing

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 1587-1593

  Zhang, Sheng ^a   Charest, Pascale G ^a   Firtel, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

CELLBIO; SIGNALING

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTACTIC FACTOR; NEUROFIBROMIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; RASG PROTEIN, DICTYOSTELIUM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMOTAXIS; DICTYOSTELIUM; DRUG EFFECT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; ONCOGENE RAS; PHYSIOLOGY;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ANIMALS; CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS; CHEMOTAXIS; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENES, RAS; NEUROFIBROMIN 1; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RAS PROTEINS;

DICTYOSTELIUM; MAMMALIA;

EID: 54149103045     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.08.069     Document Type: Article

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