Signaling in the yeast pheromone response pathway: Specific and high-affinity interaction of the mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases Kss1 and Fus3 with the upstream MAP kinase kinase Ste7

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 3637-3650

  Bardwell, Lee ^a   Cook, Jeanette G ^a   Chang, Ernie C ^a   Cairns, Bradley R ^b   Thorner, Jeremy ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c 401 Barker Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHEROMONE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; YEAST;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PHENOTYPE; PHEROMONES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN KINASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029992810     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.7.3637     Document Type: Article

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