The Dictyostelium MAP kinase kinase DdMEK1 regulates chemotaxis and is essential for chemoattractant-mediated activation of guanylyl cyclase

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 4317-4332

  Ma, Hui ^a   Gamper, Marianne ^a   Parent, Carole ^b   Firtel, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotaxis; Dictyostelium discoideum; Guanylyl cyclase; MAP kinase; MEK; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; CHEMOATTRACTANT; CYCLIC AMP; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS; CHEMOTAXIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYCLIC AMP; DICTYOSTELIUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; MAP KINASE KINASE 1; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GASTROPODA;

EID: 0030753611     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.14.4317     Document Type: Article

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