Identification of the cell fate gene stalky in dictyostelium

Cell

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 471-481

  Chang, Wen Tsan ^a   Newell, Peter C ^a   Gross, Julian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DNA BINDING; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 0030297911     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81367-7     Document Type: Article

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