Eukaryotic chemotaxis: A network of signaling pathways controls motility, directional sensing, and polarity

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 265-289

  Swaney, Kristen F ^a   Huang, Chuan Hsiang ^a   Devreotes, Peter N ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Dictyostelium; Local Excitation Global Inhibition (LEGI) model; Protein localization

Indexed keywords

CHEMOATTRACTANT; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 2; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; MYOSIN II; PHOSPHATASE; RAP1 PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; TENSIN;

BACTERIAL CELL; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL POLARITY; CELL TYPE; CHEMOTAXIS; CHROMOSOME 10; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSKELETON; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PSEUDOPODIUM; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CELL POLARITY; CHEMOTAXIS; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; DICTYOSTELIUM; EUKARYOTA; NEUTROPHILS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

DICTYOSTELIUM; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 77952911072     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.093008.131228     Document Type: Review

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