Phosphorylation of the Dictyostelium myosin II heavy chain is necessary for maintaining cellular polarity and suppressing turning during chemotaxis

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 31-51

  Stites, Janice ^a   Wessels, Deborah ^a   Uhl, Amanda ^a   Egelhoff, Thomas ^b   Shutt, Damon ^a   Soll, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell shape; Dictyostelium discoideum; Phosphorylation

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; CELL SHAPE; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

ANIMALS; CELL POLARITY; CHEMOTAXIS; CYCLIC AMP; DICTYOSTELIUM; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; PHOSPHORYLATION;

ANIMALIA; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; PSEUDOPODA;

EID: 0031972805     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1998)39:1<31::AID-CM4>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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