A surface glycoprotein indispensable for gamete fusion in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 638-644

  Araki, Yoshinori ^a   Shimizu, Hideki D ^a,c   Saeki, Kentaro ^a,d   Okamoto, Marina ^a   Yamada, Lixy ^b   Ishida, Kentaro ^a,e   Sawada, Hitoshi ^b   Urushihara, Hideko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c EIKEN CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^d Shiga 525 0055   (Japan)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCOIDINS; LECTIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GLYCOSYLATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MEMBRANE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GLYCOSYLATION; LECTINS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION;

DICTYOSTELIIDA; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; LEPIDIUM MEYENII; METAZOA;

EID: 84860318068     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00028-12     Document Type: Article

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