Expression of activated Ras during Dictyostelium development alters cell localization and changes cell fate

Development

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 907-916

  Jaffer, Z M ^a   Khosla, M ^a   Spiegelman, G B ^a   Weeks, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cell localization; Dictyostelium; Gene expression; Multi tipped aggregates; Ras

Indexed keywords

RAS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL POPULATION; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPOROGENESIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC VECTORS; LIGHT; MORPHOGENESIS; MOVEMENT; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SPORES;

ANIMALIA; DICTYOSTELIUM; EUKARYOTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0035075432     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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