Chemotaxis to cAMP and slug migration in Dictyostelium both depend on migA, a BTB protein

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1763-1775

  Escalante, Ricardo ^a   Wessels, Deborah ^b   Soll, David R ^b   Loomis, William F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL MIGRATION; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GASTROPODA;

EID: 0030765650     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.8.9.1763     Document Type: Article

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