Editorial: When charge is in charge-"Millikan" for leukocyte biologists

Journal of Leukocyte Biology

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 537-540

  Pick, Edgar ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Electrostatic interaction; Phosphoinositides; Phospholipids; Prenylation; Rac; Rho GTPases

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN P40; PROTEIN P47; RAC1 PROTEIN; RAC2 PROTEIN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE OXIDASE; RHO FACTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CYTOSOL; EDITORIAL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; LEUKOCYTE FUNCTION; LEUKOCYTE MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LEUKOCYTES; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 77950569843     PISSN: 07415400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1189/jlb.1109710     Document Type: Editorial

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