Loss of SMEK, a novel, conserved protein, suppresses mek1 null cell polarity, chemotaxis, and gene expression defects

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 7839-7853

  Mendoza, Michelle C ^a,b   Du, Fei ^a   Iranfar, Negin ^a   Tang, Nan ^a,c   Ma, Hui ^a,d   Loomis, William F ^a   Firtel, Richard A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MUTANT PROTEIN; MYOSIN II; SMEK PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MOTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL POLARITY; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; DEVELOPMENT; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA MICROARRAY; ERK1 GENE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MEK1 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMKA GENE; VEGETATIVE GROWTH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL POLARITY; CHEMOTAXIS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; MYOSINS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

DICTYOSTELIUM;

EID: 23844529203     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.25.17.7839-7853.2005     Document Type: Article

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