Redundant canonical and noncanonical Caenorhabditis elegans p21-activated kinase signaling governs distal tip cell migrations

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 181-195

  Peters, Eldon C ^a   Gossett, Andrea J ^b   Goldstein, Bob ^b   Der, Channing J ^a   Reiner, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dock180; ELMO; MIG 2; PAK 2; RAC 2; RhoG

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; GIT 1 PROTEIN; MAX 2 PROTEIN; P21 ACTIVATED KINASE; PIX 1 PROTEIN; RAC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARRIER PROTEIN; GIT 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; GIT-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; MAX 2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; MAX-2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; PAK 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; PAK-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; PIX 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; PIX-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; CELL MOTION; DOCK180; DRUG ANTAGONISM; ELMO; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MIG-2; MUTATION; PAK-2; RAC-2; RHOG; RNA INTERFERENCE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

DOCK180; ELMO; MIG-2; PAK-2; RAC-2; RHOG;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL MOVEMENT; MUTATION; P21-ACTIVATED KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84883188016     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.112.004416     Document Type: Article

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