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Small GTPase Rap1 Is Essential for Mouse Development and Formation of Functional Vasculature.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Chrzanowska-Wodnicka Magdalena, White Gilbert C, Quilliam Lawrence A, Whitehead Kevin J
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BACKGROUND: Small GTPase Rap1 has been implicated in a number of basic cellular functions, including cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesion, proliferation and regulation of polarity. Evolutionarily conserved, Rap1 has been studied in model organisms: yeast, Drosophila and mice. Mouse in vivo studies implicate Rap1 in the control of multiple stem cell, leukocyte and vascular cell functions. In vitro, several Rap1...
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