Pseudopodium dynamics and rapid cell movement in Dictyostelium ras pathway mutants

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 150-162

  Chubb, Jonathan R ^a   Wilkins, Andrew ^a   Wessels, Deborah J ^b   Soll, David R ^b   Insall, Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Cell motility; Image analysis; Ras guanine nucleotide exchange factors

Indexed keywords

F ACTIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPODIUM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL SIZE; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENES, PROTOZOAN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; PSEUDOPODIA; RAS GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS;

DICTYOSTELIUM;

EID: 0036785135     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.10064     Document Type: Article

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