Emerging roles for Rab family GTPases in human cancer

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Reviews on Cancer

Volumn 1795, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 110-116

  Chia, Wan Jie ^a   Tang, Bor Luen ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cancer; Endocytosis; Metastasis; Rab; Signaling

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RAB PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; RHO FACTOR;

CANCER INVASION; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; ENDOCYTOSIS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, GLANDULAR AND EPITHELIAL; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 62749117198     PISSN: 0304419X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbcan.2008.10.001     Document Type: Review

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