Seeing is believing: Ras dimers observed in live cells

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 32, 2015, Pages 9793-9794

  Philips, Mark R ^a   Der, Channing J ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; OLIGOMER; RAF PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CROSS LINKING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; RAS PROTEINS;

EID: 84938935006     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1511805112     Document Type: Note

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