Identification of darlin, a Dictyostelium protein with armadillo-like repeats that binds to small GTPases and is important for the proper aggregation of developing cells

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 3095-3106

  Vithalani, Kalpa K ^a,b   Parent, Carole A ^a,c   Thorn, Eric M ^a   Penn, Marcus ^a   Larochelle, Denis A ^a,d   Devreotes, Peter N ^a,c   De Lozanne, Arturo ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CHEMOTAXIS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ARMADILLO; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031769082     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.9.11.3095     Document Type: Article

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