The effects of extracellular calcium on motility, pseudopod and uropod formation, chemotaxis, and the cortical localization of myosin II in Dictyostelium discoideum

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 567-587

  Lusche, Daniel F ^a   Wessels, Deborah ^a   Soll, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium; cAMP; Cell motility; Chemotaxis; Potassium

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CYCLIC AMP; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; MYOSIN II; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMOTAXIS; CYTOSOL; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PSEUDOPODIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOVEMENT; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYCLIC AMP; DICTYOSTELIUM; MYOSIN TYPE II; POTASSIUM; PSEUDOPODIA;

DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; PSEUDOPODA; UROPODA;

EID: 67749120786     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: 10970169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.20367     Document Type: Article

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