Chemotaxis-mediated scission contributes to efficient cytokinesis in dictyostelium

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 896-903

  Nagasaki, Akira ^a   Uyeda, Taro Q P ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cellular slime mold; G protein; Midwife; Myosin II; PIP3

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN BETA SUBUNIT; MYOSIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOTILITY; CHEMOTAXIS; CYTOKINESIS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; MULTINUCLEAR CELL; NONHUMAN; NULL CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CELL MOVEMENT; CHEMOTAXIS; CYTOKINESIS; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MYOSIN TYPE II; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

ACRASIDA; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ENTAMOEBA INVADENS;

EID: 55549100290     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: 10970169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.20311     Document Type: Article

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