A gene encoding a novel anti-adhesive protein is expressed in growing cells and restricted to anterior-like cells during development of Dictyostelium

Differentiation

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 23-35

  Casademunt, Elisabeth ^a   Varney, Timothy R ^a   Dolman, Jayne ^a   Petty, Cheré ^a   Blumberg, Daphne D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior like cells; Anti adhesives; Dictyostelium discoideum; Differentiation; Gene expression

Indexed keywords

ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; GENE PRODUCT; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDE; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL AGGLUTINATION; CELL COUNT; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CODE; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REPORTER GENE; ANIMAL; CELL ADHESION; CELL AGGREGATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL ADHESION; CELL AGGREGATION; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENES, REPORTER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0036516870     PISSN: 03014681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-0436.2002.700103.x     Document Type: Article

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