Article
Protein substrates for cGMP-dependent protein phosphorylation in cilia of wild type and atalanta mutants of Paramecium.
Cell motility and the cytoskeleton - 1 Jan 1995
Ann K S, Nelson D L
Abstract excerpt
In the ciliated protozoan Paramecium, swimming direction is regulated by voltage-gated Ca2+ channels in the ciliary membrane. In response to depolarizing stimuli, intraciliary Ca2+ rises, triggering reversal of the ciliary power stroke and backward swimming. One class of Ca(2+)-unresponsive behavioral mutants of Paramecium, atalanta mutants, cannot swim backward even though they have functional Ca2+ channels in...
Topics
- Animals
- Calcium
- Cilia
- Cyclic GMP
- Cyclic GMP-Dependent Protein Kinases
- Mutation
- Paramecium
- Phosphorylation
- Protozoan Proteins
- Substrate Specificity
