The Rac GTP exchange factor TIAM-1 acts with CDC-42 and the guidance receptor UNC-40/DCC in neuronal protrusion and axon guidance

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Demarco, Rafael S ^a   Struckhoff, Eric C ^a   Lundquist, Erik A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELETED IN COLORECTAL CARCINOMA RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; NERVE PROTEIN; NETRIN; PROTEIN CDC42; PROTEIN MIG2; PROTEIN UNC 73; RAC1 PROTEIN; T CELL LYMPHOMA INVASION AND METASTASIS FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CDC42 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; CED 10 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; CED-10 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; RAC PROTEIN; TIAM1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; UNC 40 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; UNC 73 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; UNC-40 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; UNC-73 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS;

ARTICLE; C11D9 GENE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; FILOPODIUM; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CODE; LAMELLIPODIUM; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; T CELL LYMPHOMA INVASION AND METASTASIS FACTOR 1 GENE; T21E12 GENE; TRANSGENE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GROWTH CONE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOPODIUM;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; GROWTH CONES; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PSEUDOPODIA; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84860544936     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002665     Document Type: Article

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