Regulation and function of P-Rex family Rac-GEFs

Small GTPases

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 49-70

  Welch, Heidi C E ^a  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GEFs; Guanine nucleotide exchange factors; P Rex1; P Rex2; P Rex2b; PREX1; PREX2; PREX2A; Rac; Rho family

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; EPHRIN B1; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; INOSITOL TRISPHOSPHATE; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; P REX 1PROTEIN; P REX 2PROTEIN; P REX PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3, 4, 5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1; PROTEIN KINASE B; RAC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTEIN BINDING; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR;

BREAST CANCER; CELL MIGRATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DENDRITE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; HEMOSTASIS; INFLAMMATION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LEUKOCYTE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MUTATION; NEUTROPHIL; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PIGMENTATION; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PURKINJE CELL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THROMBOCYTE; TUMOR GROWTH; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DIABETES MELLITUS; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; SECOND MESSENGER;

ANIMALS; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN BINDING; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84944457142     PISSN: 21541248     EISSN: 21541256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/21541248.2014.973770     Document Type: Review

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