Role of guanine nucleotide exchange factor-H1 in complement-mediated rhoa activation in glomerular epithelial cells

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 289, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4206-4218

  Mouawad, Flaviana ^a   Aoudjit, Lamine ^a   Jiang, Ruihua ^a   Szaszi, Katalin ^b   Takano, Tomoko ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ERK; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR (GEF); PODOCYTES; RHOA;

ANIMALS; BUTADIENES; CELL DEATH; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPLEMENT MEMBRANE ATTACK COMPLEX; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MAP KINASE KINASE 1; MAP KINASE KINASE 2; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MICROTUBULES; MYOSINS; NITRILES; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; RHOA GTP-BINDING PROTEIN;

EID: 84894167778     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.506816     Document Type: Article

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