Human-specific genes may offer a unique window into human cell signaling

Science Signaling

Volumn 2, Issue 89, 2009, Pages

  Stahl, Philip D ^a   Wainszelbaum, Marisa J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NUCLEOPORIN; RAB PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; TBC1D3 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

CELL FUNCTION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL TRANSPORT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HOMINID; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 73349089334     PISSN: 19450877     EISSN: 19379145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.289pe59     Document Type: Short Survey

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