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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Ecke M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6343538 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Small GTPases 20170131 1
The activation of Ras is common to two activities in cells of <i>Dictyostelium discoideum</i>: the directed movement in a gradient of chemoattractant and the autonomous generation of propagating waves of actin polymerization on the substrate-attached cell surface. We produced large cells by electric-pulse induced fusion to simultaneously study both activities in one cell. For imaging, a fluorescent label for activated Ras was combined with labels for filamentous actin, PIP3, or PTEN. Chemotactic ...[more]