Genetic relationships between the G protein βγ complex, Ste5p, Ste20p and Cdc42p: Investigation of effector roles in the yeast pheromone response pathway

Genetics

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 103-117

  Akada, Rinji ^a,b   Kallal, Lorena ^a   Johnson, Douglas I ^a   Kurjan, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PHEROMONE;

ALLELISM; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC SCREENING; GROWTH RETARDATION; LETHAL MUTANT; MATING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; CARRIER PROTEINS; CDC42 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROSSES, GENETIC; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PHEROMONES; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0029960339     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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