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Open questions: what about the 'other' Rho GTPases?
1Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London, Guy's Campus, London, SE1 1UL, UK. anne.ridley@kcl.ac.uk.
BMC Biology
|August 6, 2016
Abstract:
Rho GTPases have many and diverse roles in cell physiology, and some family members are very well studied, including RhoA, Rac1 and Cdc42. But many are relatively neglected, and fundamental questions about their mechanisms and functions remain open.
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