Atypical PKC, Regulated by Rho GTPases and Mek/Erk, Phosphorylates Ezrin during eight-cell embryocompaction

Developmental Biology

Volumn 375, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 13-22

  Liu, Hongjie ^a   Wu, Zhaoting ^a   Shi, Xianle ^a   Li, Wenzhi ^b   Liu, Chang ^a   Wang, Dekun ^a   Ye, Xiaoying ^a   Liu, Lin ^a   Na, Jie ^b   Cheng, Hong ^c   Chen, Lingyi ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Tsinghua University   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Embryo compaction; Ezrin phosphorylation; Mek Erk; PKC; Rho GTPase

Indexed keywords

EXOENZYME C3; EZRIN; F ACTIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE C; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME REGULATION; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84873527141     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2013.01.002     Document Type: Article

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