A novel Dictyostelium cell surface protein important for both cell adhesion and cell sorting

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 3343-3352

  Ginger, Rebecca S ^a   Drury, Lucy ^a   Baader, Christine ^a   Zhukovskaya, Natasha V ^a   Williams, Jeffrey G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell adhesion; Cell sorting; Cell surface protein; Dictyostelium discoideum; dtfA

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; MUCIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CYTOSKELETON; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GENE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIVISION; CHEMOTAXIS; CHIMERA; DICTYOSTELIUM; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUCINS; MUTATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; FUNGI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031712924     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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