Small GTPase RacF2 affects sexual cell fusion and asexual development in Dictyostelium discoideum through the regulation of cell adhesion

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 199-208

  Muramoto, Tetsuya ^a   Urushihara, Hideko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell interaction; Cell cell adhesion; Rac; Sexual cell fusion; Small G protein

Indexed keywords

EDETIC ACID; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RAC PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CELL ADHESION; CELL FUSION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MUTANT; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; KNOCKOUT GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN ISOLATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELLS, CULTURED; DICTYOSTELIUM; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS;

DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 33645285933     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2006.00857.x     Document Type: Article

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