LrrA, a novel leucine-rich repeat protein involved in cytoskeleton remodeling, is required for multicellular morphogenesis in Dictyostelium discoideum

Developmental Biology

Volumn 285, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 238-251

  Liu, Chia I ^a   Cheng, Tsung Lin ^a   Chen, Shu Zhen ^a   Huang, Ying Chieh ^a   Chang, Wen Tsan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cell adhesion; Cytoskeleton remodeling; Dictyostelium discoideum; Gene knockout; Leucine rich repeats (LRRs); Multicellular morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

F ACTIN; LEUCINE; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; PHALLOIDIN;

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MOTION; CELL SELECTION; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DEVELOPMENT; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STAINING; VEGETATIVE GROWTH; WILD TYPE;

DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 24144445363     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2005.05.045     Document Type: Article

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