A new member of the GP138 multigene family implicated in cell interactions in Dictyostelium discoideum

Cell Structure and Function

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 123-129

  Hata, Toshihiro ^a   Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki ^a,b   Tanaka, Yoshimasa ^a   Urushihara, Hideko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b DAINIPPON SUMITOMO PHARMA CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell fusion; Cell recognition; Dictyostelium discoideum; Multigene family

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; CELL INTERACTION; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DICTYOSTELIUM; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOTYPE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ACRASIDA; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 0032859812     PISSN: 03867196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1247/csf.24.123     Document Type: Article

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