The autocrine mitogenic loop of the ciliate Euplotes raikovi: The pheromone membrane-bound forms are the cell binding sites and potential signaling receptors of soluble pheromones

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1445-1455

  Ortenzi, Claudio ^a   Alimenti, Claudio ^a   Vallesi, Adriana ^a   Di Pretoro, Barbara ^a   La Terza, Antonietta ^a   Luporini, Pierangelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL ADHESION; CILIATE; NONHUMAN; POLYMENOPHOREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLUBILITY;

CILIOPHORA; EUPLOTES RAIKOVI; POLYMENOPHOREA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034044994     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.11.4.1445     Document Type: Article

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