Locally excitable Cdc42 signals steer cells during chemotaxis

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 191-201

  Yang, Hee Won ^a   Collins, Sean R ^a,b   Meyer, Tobias ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; PROTEIN CDC42; RAC PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; ACTIN; FORMYLMETHIONYLLEUCYLPHENYLALANINE; RHOA PROTEIN, HUMAN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POLARIZATION; CELL TRACKING; CHEMOKINESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; POLARIZATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NEUTROPHIL; POLYMERIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTOR;

ACTINS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CDC42 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; N-FORMYLMETHIONINE LEUCYL-PHENYLALANINE; NEUTROPHIL INFILTRATION; NEUTROPHILS; POLYMERIZATION; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RAS PROTEINS; RHOA GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84956833043     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb3292     Document Type: Article

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