Trishanku, a novel regulator of cell-type stability and morphogenesis in Dictyostelium discoideum

Differentiation

Volumn 74, Issue 9-10, 2006, Pages 596-607

  Jaiswal, Jyoti K ^a,b   Mujumdar, Nameeta ^a   MacWilliams, Harry K ^c   Nanjundiah, Vidyanand ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

BTB domain; Differentiation; Labile galactosidase; Pattern formation; REMI; Trishanku; glucoronidase

Indexed keywords

TRIA PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PST GENE; REGULATOR GENE; REPORTER GENE; SPOROGENESIS; TRISHANKU GENE; WILD TYPE;

DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GASTROPODA;

EID: 33845535627     PISSN: 03014681     EISSN: 14320436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-0436.2006.00086.x     Document Type: Article

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