Signal transduction pathways leading to spore differentiation in Dictyostelium discoideum

Developmental Biology

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 146-155

  Anjard, Christophe ^a   Zeng, Changjiang ^a   Loomis, William F ^b   Nellen, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dictyostelium; Peptide; PKA; Signal transduction; Spore differentiation

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DICTYOSTELIUM; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 0032518338     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8804     Document Type: Article

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