MAPKs in development: Insights from Dictyostelium signaling pathways

Biomolecular Concepts

Volumn 2, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 39-46

  Hadwiger, Jeffrey A ^a   Nguyen, Hoai Nghia ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dictyostelium; ERK2; extracellular signal regulated kinase 1 (ERK1); G protein; mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK)

Indexed keywords

DICTYOSTELIUM; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84859023456     PISSN: 18685021     EISSN: 1868503X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bmc.2011.004     Document Type: Review

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