Spalten, a protein containing Gα-protein-like and PP2C domains, is essential for cell-type differentiation in Dictyostelium

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1525-1538

  Aubry, Laurence ^a   Firtel, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell type gene expression; Development; Dictyostelium; GTP binding proteins; PP2C

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PHOSPHATASE;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

DICTYOSTELIUM; FUNGI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032523805     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.10.1525     Document Type: Article

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