Dependence of stress resistance on a spore coat heteropolysaccharide in Dictyostelium

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 27-36

  West, Christopher M ^a   Nguyen, Phuong ^a   Van Der Wel, Hanke ^a   Metcalf, Talibah ^a,c   Sweeney, Kristin R ^a   Blader, Ira J ^a   Erdos, Gregory W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTOZOAN SPORE;

ANIMALS; CELLULOSE; DICTYOSTELIUM; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SPORES, PROTOZOAN; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 58149330379     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00398-07     Document Type: Article

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