Regulation of contractile vacuole formation and activity in Dictyostelium

EMBO Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 2064-2076

  Du, Fei ^a   Edwards, Kimberly ^a,c   Shen, Zhouxin ^a   Sun, Binggang ^a,d   De Lozanne, Arturo ^b   Briggs, Steven ^a   Firtel, Richard A ^a  

^a SECTION OF CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d JOHNSON AND JOHNSON PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

BEACH proteins; Contractile vacuole; Dictyostelium; Rab; RabGAP

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; DISGORGIN; DRAININ; DVSA PROTEIN; LVSD PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RAB PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL VACUOLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM; HYDROLYSIS; MEMBRANE FUSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; DICTYOSTELIUM; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; VACUOLES;

DICTYOSTELIUM;

EID: 49149118903     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2008.131     Document Type: Article

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