Evidence for a role for the Dictyostellium Rap1 in cell viability and the response to osmotic stress

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 115, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 3675-3682

  Kang, Rujun ^a   Ke, Helmut ^a   Ip, Hermia ^a   Spiegelman, George B ^a   Weeks, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antisense; cGMP; Dictyostelium; Differentiation; Rap1 activation; Stress responses; Viability

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; CYCLIC GMP; DISCOIDIN; FOLIC ACID; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; MONOMERIC GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; RAP PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; SORBITOL; EDETIC ACID; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; RAP1 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL KINETICS; CELL VIABILITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; ANIMAL; CELL DIVISION; CELL SIZE; CELL SURVIVAL; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STRESS; TEMPERATURE;

DICTYOSTELIUM;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL SIZE; CELL SURVIVAL; CYCLIC GMP; DICTYOSTELIUM; EDETIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RAL GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; RAP1 GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RNA, ANTISENSE; SORBITOL; STRESS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0037106068     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00039     Document Type: Article

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