Cell-cycle checkpoint for transition from cell division to differentiation

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 463-481

  Maeda, Yasuo ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Dictyostelium; GDT point; Growth differentiation transition; Mitochondria; Pattern formation; Starvation

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CELL TYPE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DICTYOSTELIUM; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION TRANSITION POINT; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONTENT; REVIEW;

CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; DICTYOSTELIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACRASIDA; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 79956086867     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2011.01264.x     Document Type: Review

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