Isolation and characterization of a novel cytokinesis-deficient mutant in Dictyostelium discoideum

Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 290-301

  Vithalani, Kalpa K ^a   Shoffner, J Daniel ^a   De Lozanne, Arturo ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

actin; capping; cell division; contraction; development; motility; mu tagenesis; myosin

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; DNA; MYOSIN;

ARTICLE; CELL MUTANT; CYTOKINESIS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION;

ACTINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONCANAVALIN A; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE DOSAGE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; MYOSINS; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 0029818897     PISSN: 07302312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4644(199608)62:2<290::AID-JCB16>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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