Snapshots form a big picture of guanine nucleotide exchange

Science Signaling

Volumn 2, Issue 91, 2009, Pages

  Rittinger, Katrin ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; NUCLEOTIDE; RHO FACTOR; DOCK9 PROTEIN, HUMAN; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ENZYME REGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SHORT SURVEY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77449149247     PISSN: 19450877     EISSN: 19379145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.291pe63     Document Type: Short Survey

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