The prokaryote messenger c-di-GMP triggers stalk cell differentiation in Dictyostelium

Nature

Volumn 488, Issue 7413, 2012, Pages 680-683

  Chen, Zhi Hui ^a   Schaap, Pauline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC GMP; DIGUANYLATE CYCLASE A; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; MORPHOGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL ORGANELLE; EUKARYOTE; FRUITING; GENE EXPRESSION; PHOSPHATE; PROKARYOTE;

AMOEBA (GENUS); ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DGCA GENE; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; MONOLAYER CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNTHESIS; WILD TYPE;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYCLIC GMP; DICTYOSTELIUM; FRUITING BODIES, FUNGAL; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS;

DICTYOSTELIIDA; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EUKARYOTA; GASTROPODA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84865502940     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11313     Document Type: Article

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