Taking the plunge: Terminal differentiation in Dictyostelium

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-19

  Thomason, Peter ^a   Traynor, David ^a   Kay, Robert ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE;

CELL FATE; CELL SPECIFICITY; DICTYOSTELIUM; GROWTH REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032917452     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(98)01635-7     Document Type: Review

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