Rac regulation of chemotaxis and morphogenesis in Dictyostelium

EMBO Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 4177-4189

  Park, Kyung Chan ^a   Rivero, Francisco ^b   Meili, Ruedi ^a   Lee, Susan ^a   Apone, Fabio ^a,d   Firtel, Richard A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Arterra Bioscience Srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chemotaxis; Dictyostelium; Morphogenesis; PI3K; Rac

Indexed keywords

2 MORPHOLINO 8 PHENYLCHROMONE; F ACTIN; MYOSIN II; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN CDC42; RAC PROTEIN; RACB PROTEIN; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CYTOSKELETON; DICTYOSTELIUM; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NULL CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PSEUDOPODIUM; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ACTINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL SHAPE; CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS; CHEMOTAXIS; DICTYOSTELIUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MYOSIN TYPE II; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

DICTYOSTELIUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 8444247968     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600368     Document Type: Article

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