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Peptide signaling during terminal differentiation of Dictyostelium.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 24 May 2005
Anjard Christophe, Loomis William F
Abstract excerpt
A wide variety of mechanisms have evolved for intercellular communication in metazoans, but some of the signaling molecules were already used in their predecessors. The social amoeba, Dictyostelium discoideum, is known to use peptides to trigger sporulation within fruiting bodies, but their sequences have not been defined. We found that the peptide signal spore differentiation factor 2 (SDF-2) is processed from...
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