Identification and analysis of a gene that is essential for morphogenesis and prespore cell differentiation in Dictyostelium

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 2565-2576

  Yasukawa, Hiroo ^a,b   Mohanty, Sudhasri ^a   Firtel, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell type differentiation; Dictyostelium; Gene expression; PslA

Indexed keywords

MORPHOGEN;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHIMERA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DICTYOSTELIUM; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEXANONES; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0031829108     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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