Cell-type-specific rescue of myosin function during Dictyostelium development defines two distinct cell movements required for culmination.

doi:10.1242/dev.125.19.3895

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Cell-type-specific rescue of myosin function during Dictyostelium development defines two distinct cell movements required for culmination.

Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Oct 1998

Chen T L, Wolf W A, Chisholm R L

Abstract excerpt

Mutant Dictyostelium cells lacking any of the component polypeptides of myosin II exhibit developmental defects. To define myosin's role in establishing Dictyostelium's developmental pattern, we have rescued myosin function in a myosin regulatory light chain null mutant (mlcR-) using cell-type-sp...

Topics

Animals
Chemotaxis
Cyclic AMP
Dictyostelium
Genes, Protozoan
Green Fluorescent Proteins
In Situ Hybridization
Luminescent Proteins
Movement
Mutation
Myosin Light Chains
RNA, Messenger
RNA, Protozoan
Spores

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