A 60-kilodalton protein component of the counting factor complex regulates group size in Dictyostelium discoideum

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1532-1538

  Brock, Debra A ^a   Van Egmond, Wouter N ^b   Shamoo, Yousif ^a   Hatton, R Diane ^a   Gomer, Richard H ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID PHOSPHATASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COUNTIN PROTEIN, DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; MESSENGER RNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOTION; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DICTYOSTELIUM; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACID PHOSPHATASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOVEMENT; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA, ANTISENSE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER;

DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 33748880630     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00169-06     Document Type: Article

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