Characterizing Cross-Talk In Vivo: Avoiding Pitfalls and Overinterpretation

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 471, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-16

  Siryaporn, Albert ^a   Goulian, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN-HISTIDINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; PROTEIN KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79952201268     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: 15577988     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(10)71001-6     Document Type: Chapter

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