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Dispatch. Dictyostelium chemotaxis: fascism through the back door?
1School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK. R.H.Insall@bham.ac.uk
Current Biology : CB
|May 3, 2003
Abstract:
Aggregating Dictyostelium cells secrete cyclic AMP to attract their neighbours by chemotaxis. It has now been shown that adenylyl cyclase is enriched in the rear of cells, and this localisation is required for normal aggregation.