A serum response factor homolog is required for spore differentiation in Dictyostelium

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 3801-3808

  Escalante, Ricardo ^a   Sastre, Leandro ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS ALBERTO SOLS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dictyostelium; Differentiation; PKA; Sporulation; SRF

Indexed keywords

8 BROMO CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL VIABILITY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPOROGENESIS;

8-BROMO CYCLIC ADENOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERUM RESPONSE FACTOR; SPORES;

ANIMALIA; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EUKARYOTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0031737328     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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