A regulator of G protein signaling-containing kinase is important for chemotaxis and multicellular development in Dictyostelium

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1727-1743

  Sun, Binggang ^a   Firtel, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR KINASE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; RGS DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN KINASE 1; RGS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMOTAXIS; DICTYOSTELIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WILD TYPE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMOTAXIS; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; DICTYOSTELIUM; GUIBOURTIA DEMEUSEI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0037694090     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E02-08-0550     Document Type: Article

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