Evidence that the Dictyostelium Dd-STATa protein is a repressor that regulates commitment to stalk cell differentiation and is also required for efficient chemotaxis

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 3391-3405

  Mohanty, Sudhasri ^a   Jermyn, Keith A ^b   Early, Anne ^c   Kawata, Takefumi ^b   Aubry, Laurence ^a   Ceccarelli, Adriano ^d   Schaap, Pauline ^e   Williams, Jeffrey G ^b   Firtel, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d SAN LUIGI GONZAGA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cell type differentiation; Dictyostelium discoideum; Receptor signaling; STAT; Tyrosine phosphorylation

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHEMOTAXIS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; MONOLAYER CULTURE; NONHUMAN; NULL CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

8-BROMO CYCLIC ADENOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHEMOTAXIS; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC MARKERS; LAC OPERON; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 0032819874     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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