Dictyostelium chemotaxis: Essential Ras activation and accessory signalling pathways for amplification

EMBO Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1273-1279

  Kortholt, Arjan ^a   Kataria, Rama ^a   Keizer Gunnink, Ineke ^a   Van Egmond, Wouter N ^a   Khanna, Ankita ^a   Van Haastert, Peter J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

amplification; chemotaxis; Ras; shallow gradients; synergy

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; ENZYME; FOLIC ACID; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PROTEIN TORC2; RAS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CHEMOTAXIS; CYCLIC AMP; DICTYOSTELIUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FOLIC ACID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RAS PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

DICTYOSTELIUM;

EID: 82555187016     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2011.210     Document Type: Article

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