The RasGrf family of mammalian guanine nucleotide exchange factors

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Reviews on Cancer

Volumn 1815, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 170-188

  Fernández Medarde, Alberto ^a   Santos, Eugenio ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cell growth differentiation; Guanine nucleotide exchange factor; RasGEF; RasGrf1; RasGrf2; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CANNABINOID RECEPTOR; CYCLIC AMP; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; PROTEIN RASGRF2; RAS PROTEIN; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIRTH; BODY SIZE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME IMPRINTING; GENOME SIZE; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEARNING; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOMA; MEMORY; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PANCREAS ISLET CELL FUNCTION; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MICE; RAS-GRF1; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 78651379505     PISSN: 0304419X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbcan.2010.11.001     Document Type: Review

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