Steroids initiate a signaling cascade that triggers rapid sporulation in Dictyostelium

Development

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 803-812

  Anjard, Christophe ^a   Su, Yongxuan ^a   Loomis, William F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

G protein coupled receptor; GrlA; SDF 2; SDF 3; Steroids

Indexed keywords

16ALPHA HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACYL COENZYME A; ALDOSTERONE; BINDING PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTODOXONE; DEXAMETHASONE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE SYNTHASE; HYDROCORTISONE; MIFEPRISTONE; STEROID; STIGMASTEROL; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 2; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 4 AMINOBUTYRATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; DIAZEPAM BINDING INHIBITOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNIT; PEPTIDE; PRIMER DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; SDF 2 PROTEIN, DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; SDF-2 PROTEIN, DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

ARTICLE; CELL ENCAPSULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS; STEROIDOGENESIS; ANIMAL; DICTYOSTELIUM; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTOZOAN SPORE;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

4-AMINOBUTYRATE TRANSAMINASE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DIAZEPAM BINDING INHIBITOR; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS; MUTATION; PEPTIDES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPORES, PROTOZOAN; STEROIDS;

EID: 65549116544     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.032607     Document Type: Article

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