Null mutations of the Dictyostelium cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase gene block chemotactic cell movement in developing aggregates

Developmental Biology

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 181-192

  Sucgang, Richard ^a   Weijer, Cornelis J ^b   Siegert, Florian ^c   Franke, Jakob ^a   Kessin, Richard H ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHODIESTERASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL MOTION; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031472898     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8720     Document Type: Article

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