Developmentally and spatially regulated activation of a Dictyostelium STAT protein by a serpentine receptor

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 4018-4028

  Araki, Tsuyoshi ^a   Camper, Marianne ^b   Early, Anne ^a   Fukuzawa, Masashi ^a   Abe, Tomoaki ^a   Kawata, Takefumi ^a   Kim, Eugene ^a   Firtel, Richard A ^a   Williams, Jeffrey G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dictyostelium; Receptor signaling; STAT; Tyrosine phosphorylation

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN G;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECEPTOR BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYCLIC AMP; DICTYOSTELIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; RECEPTORS, CYCLIC AMP; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TYROSINE;

DICTYOSTELIUM; GASTROPODA; METAZOA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032528263     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.14.4018     Document Type: Article

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