Evolution of the Ras-like small GTPases and their regulators

Small GTPases

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 4-16

  van dam, Teunis J P ^a,c   Bos, Johannes L ^b   Snel, Berend ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Evolution; RapGAP; Ras like GTPases; RasGAP; RasGEF

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; PROTEIN RALGAPA1; PROTEIN RALGAPA2; PROTEIN RALGAPB; RAL PROTEIN; RAP PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; RHEB PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EUKARYOTE; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; LAST EUKARYOTIC COMMON ANCESTOR; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 79960231872     PISSN: 21541248     EISSN: 21541256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/sgtp.2.1.15113     Document Type: Article

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