Signalling over a distance: Gradient patterns and phosphorylation waves within single cells

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1235-1241

  Muñoz García, Javier ^a   Kholodenko, Boris N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Gradient pattern; GTPase activating protein (GAP); Guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF); Phosphorylation wave; Signalling

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

CELL MEMBRANE; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 77957287998     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST0381235     Document Type: Review

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