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Detection of subtle phenotypes: the case of the cell adhesion molecule csA in Dictyostelium.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 4 Aug 1998
Ponte E, Bracco E, Faix J, Bozzaro S
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Dictyostelium amoebae aggregate into a multicellular organism by cAMP-driven chemotaxis and cell-cell adhesion. Cell adhesion is mediated by an EDTA-sensitive and an EDTA-resistant adhesion system. The latter is developmentally regulated and triggered by homophilic interactions of the membrane glycoprotein csA; on disruption of the encoding gene, EDTA-resistant contacts fail to form. Nevertheless, csA-null cells...
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