The role of GTP-binding proteins in signal transduction: from the sublimely simple to the conceptually complex.

Curr Top Cell Regul

Signal Transduction Section, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709.

Published: July 1992

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