Rab GTPases as regulators of endocytosis, targets of disease and therapeutic opportunities

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 305-318

  Agola, J O ^a,b   Jim, P A ^a,b   Ward, H H ^a,b   Basuray, S ^a,b   Wandinger Ness, A ^a,b  

^a Department of Pathology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Charcot Marie Tooth disease; GTPase networks; Mental retardation; Neurodegenerative disease; Neuropathies, pigmentation, immune and bleeding disorders

Indexed keywords

GUANINE DISSOCIATION INHIBITOR; HYDROLASE INHIBITOR; NE 10790; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING INHIBITOR; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN RAB11A; PROTEIN RAB11B; PROTEIN RAB14; PROTEIN RAB15; PROTEIN RAB17; PROTEIN RAB20; PROTEIN RAB21; PROTEIN RAB22A; PROTEIN RAB22B; PROTEIN RAB24; PROTEIN RAB25; PROTEIN RAB31; PROTEIN RAB32; PROTEIN RAB34; PROTEIN RAB35; PROTEIN RAB36; PROTEIN RAB39; PROTEIN RAB4A; PROTEIN RAB5A; PROTEIN RAB7A; PROTEIN RAB9A; RAB PROTEIN; TRANSFERASE INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

AUTOPHAGY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL METABOLISM; CELL VACUOLE; CELL VIABILITY; CYTOSKELETON; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEGRADATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG TARGETING; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXOCYTOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NEOPLASM; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PINOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RETINA DEGENERATION; REVIEW; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; AUTOPHAGY; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; ENDOCYTOSIS; HUMANS; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 80052642324     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: 13990004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2011.01724.x     Document Type: Review

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