An extragenic suppressor of the mitosis-defective bimD6 mutation of Aspergillus nidulans codes for a chromosome scaffold protein

Genetics

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 777-787

  Holt, Cydne L ^a   May, Gregory S ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; COLD SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS MUTANT; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIDS; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA DAMAGE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 0029943216     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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