STAT signaling in Dictyostelium development

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 548-557

  Kawata, Takefumi ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dictyostelium; Gene expression; Phosphotyrosine signal; STAT; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

JANUS KINASE; PHOSPHOTYROSINE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; STAT PROTEIN; STATA PROTEIN; STATB PROTEIN; STATC PROTEIN; STATD PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL FATE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOREGULATION; NONHUMAN; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

DICTYOSTELIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; METAZOA;

EID: 79956152985     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2010.01243.x     Document Type: Review

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