A Ras GAP is essential for cytokinesis and spatial patterning in Dictyostelium

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 983-996

  Lee, Susan ^a   Escalante, Ricardo ^a   Firtel, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokinesis; Dictyostelium discoideum; GAP; Ras; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GENE DISRUPTION; MULTINUCLEAR CELL; NONHUMAN; PATTERN STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIVISION; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; DICTYOSTELIUM; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEINS; RAS GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; RAS PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GASTROPODA;

EID: 0030934487     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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