Control of prestalk-cell differentiation by transcription factors

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 538-547

  Fukuzawa, Masashi ^a  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dictyostelium; Differentiation; Differentiation inducing factor; Prestalk cell; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

BASIC LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DIFFERENTIATION INDUCING FACTOR; METHYLTRANSFERASE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN MYB; STAT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; FRUITING BODY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRESTALK CELL; PROTOZOAN SPORE; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DICTYOSTELIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 79956139627     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2011.01269.x     Document Type: Review

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