Dictyostelium myosin II null mutant can still cap Con A receptors.

doi:10.1073/pnas.94.18.9684

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Dictyostelium myosin II null mutant can still cap Con A receptors.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 2 Sept 1997

Aguado-Velasco C, Bretscher M S

Abstract excerpt

Cross-linked antigens on the surface of a motile cell cap at the trailing end of the cell. In Dictyostelium discoideum, myosin II null mutants have previously been reported to be unable to cap Con A receptors, although they are able to locomote. This finding implicated myosin II as an essential c...

Topics

Animals
Dictyostelium
Mutation
Myosins
Receptors, Concanavalin A

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