Assessment of Development and Chemotaxis in Dictyostelium discoideum Mutants

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 769, Issue , 2011, Pages 287-309

  Artemenko, Yulia ^b   Swaney, Kristen F ^b   Devreotes, Peter N ^a  

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

^b NONE

Author keywords

Actin; cAR1; CMFDA labeling; Differentiation; Micropipette assay; Multicellular development; PIP3 dynamics; Small population assay; Under buffer assay

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYCLIC AMP; HYBRID PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; PHOSPHOINOSITIDE 3,4,5 TRIPHOSPHATE; PHOSPHOINOSITIDE-3,4,5-TRIPHOSPHATE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CHEMISTRY; CHEMOTAXIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME LAPSE IMAGING;

ACTINS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL MIGRATION ASSAYS; CHEMOTAXIS; CULTURE MEDIA; CYCLIC AMP; DICTYOSTELIUM; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 79960915046     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-207-6_20     Document Type: Chapter

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