A Dictyostelium myosin I plays a crucial role in regulating the frequency of pseudopods formed on the substratum

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 64-79

  Wessels, Deborah ^a   Titus, Margaret ^b   Soll, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cell motility; Dictyostelium discoideum; MyoA mutant; pseudopod formation; three dimensional analysis

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PSEUDOPODIUM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALIA; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; PSEUDOPODA;

EID: 0029586647     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1996)33:1<64::AID-CM7>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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