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How Do Amoebae Swim and Crawl?

The surface behaviour of swimming amoebae was followed in cells bearing a cAR1-paGFP (cyclic AMP receptor fused to a photoactivatable-GFP) construct. Sensitized amoebae were placed in a buoyant medium where they could swim toward a chemoattractant cAMP source. paGFP, activated at the cell’s front, r...

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Autores principales: Howe, Jonathan D., Barry, Nicholas P., Bretscher, Mark S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3770602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24040237
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0074382