A homologue of Cdk8 is required for spore cell differentiation in Dictyostelium

Developmental Biology

Volumn 271, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 49-58

  Lin, Hsiu Hsu Sophia ^a   Khosla, Meenal ^b   Huang, Hao Jen ^c   Hsu, Duen Wei ^a   Michaelis, Christine ^b   Weeks, Gerald ^b   Pears, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CTD phosphorylation; Regulation of transcription; RNA polymerase II; Spore differentiation

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 8;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE FUNCTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTOZOON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPORE CELL;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 2942513050     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2004.03.020     Document Type: Article

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