PAKa, a putative PAK family member, is required for cytokinesis and the regulation of the cytoskeleton in Dictyostelium discoideum cells during chemotaxis

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 559-575

  Chung, Chang Y ^a   Firtel, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotaxis; Dictyostelium discoideum; Myosin II; PAK; Rac Cdc42

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP; HISTONE H2B; MYOSIN; PROTEIN P21; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOTION; CHEMOTAXIS; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSKELETON; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME REGULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PSEUDOPODIUM;

ACTINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; CHEMOTAXIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYCLIC AMP; CYTOSKELETON; DICTYOSTELIUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE DELETION; GIANT CELLS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOSINS; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PSEUDOPODIA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAINS;

EID: 0033230933     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.147.3.559     Document Type: Article

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