The helC gene encodes a putative DEAD-box RNA helicase required for development in Dictyostelium discoideum

Current Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 607-610

  Machesky, Laura M ^a   Insall, Robert H ^a   Kay, Robert R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032493032     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(98)70233-7     Document Type: Article

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