The Dictyostelium dual-specificity kinase splA is essential for spore differentiation

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 3295-3305

  Nuckolls, Glen H ^a,c   Osherov, Nir ^b   Loomis, William F ^b   Spudich, James A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Dictyostelium; Differentiation; Phosphorylation; Protein tyrosine kinases (PTK); Sporulation

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; SERINE; THREONINE; TYROSINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE STRUCTURE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPOROGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA, FUNGAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SPORES, FUNGAL; TYROSINE;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; DICTYOSTELIUM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0029851378     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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