Structural and functional studies of a family of <it>Dictyostelium discoideum </it>developmentally regulated, prestalk genes coding for small proteins

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The social amoeba <it>Dictyostelium discoideum </it>executes a multicellular development program upon starvation. This morphogenetic process requires the differential regulation of a large number of genes and is coordinat...

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Main Authors: Escalante Ricardo, Galardi-Castilla María, Vicente Juan J, Sastre Leandro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-01-01
Series:BMC Microbiology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2180/8/1