Detection of activated Rho in fixed Xenopus tissue

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 238, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1407-1411

  Berger, Corinna D ^a   März, Martin ^a,b   Kitzing, Thomas M ^a   Grosse, Robert ^a   Steinbeisser, Herbert ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell migration; Gastrulation; RBD GFP; Rho; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; RHO FACTOR; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; RHOTEKIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONAL TISSUE; GASTRULA; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 66349125303     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21884     Document Type: Article

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