Signaling mechanisms for chemotaxis

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 495-502

  Wang, Yu ^a   Chen, Chun Lin ^a   Iijima, Miho ^a  

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

Author keywords

Dictyostelium; Phospholipase A2; PtdIns(3,4,5)P3; Ras GTPase; Soluble guanylyl cyclase; TorC2

Indexed keywords

CHEMOATTRACTANT; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; HETEROTRIMERIC GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE;

CELL MOTION; CELL SHAPE; CHEMOTAXIS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MAMMAL; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SECOND MESSENGER;

CHEMOTAXIS; DICTYOSTELIUM; HETEROTRIMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CYCLIC AMP; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79956143423     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2011.01265.x     Document Type: Review

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