Myosin heavy chain kinases play essential roles in Ca2+, but not cAMP, chemotaxis and the natural aggregation of Dictyostelium discoideum

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 125, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 4923-4933

  Wessels, Deborah ^a   Lusche, Daniel F ^a   Steimle, Paul A ^b   Scherer, Amanda ^a   Kuhl, Spencer ^a   Wood, Kristen ^a   Hanson, Brett ^a   Egelhoff, Thomas T ^c   Soll, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium chemotaxis; Calcium receptor; Microfluidic chamber; Myosin II

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION; CYCLIC AMP; MYOSIN II; MYOSIN II HEAVY CHAIN KINASE A; MYOSIN II HEAVY CHAIN KINASE B; MYOSIN II HEAVY CHAIN KINASE C; MYOSIN II HEAVY CHAIN KINASE D; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN KINASE; MYOSIN-HEAVY-CHAIN KINASE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; CHEMOTAXIS; CYTOPLASM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; WILD TYPE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL MOTION; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOPODIUM;

DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

CALCIUM; CALCIUM-CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CHEMOTAXIS; CYCLIC AMP; DICTYOSTELIUM; HUMANS; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; PSEUDOPODIA; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 84872198306     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: 14779137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.112474     Document Type: Article

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