MEK1 and protein phosphatase 4 coordinate Dictyostelium development and chemotaxis

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3817-3827

  Mendoza, Michelle C ^a,b   Booth, Ezgi O ^c   Shaulsky, Gad ^c   Firtel, Richard A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 1; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 4; SMKA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CELL STRESS; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH CURVE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; CHEMOTAXIS; DICTYOSTELIUM; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MAP KINASE KINASE 1; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 34248171722     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.02194-06     Document Type: Article

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