Isolation and characterization of fission yeast mutants defective in the assembly and placement of the contractile actin ring

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 131-142

  Chang, Fred ^a,b   Woollard, Alison ^a   Nurse, Paul ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Cell division mutant; Contractile ring; Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BETA TUBULIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROFILIN; TROPOMYOSIN;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE FUNCTION; INTERPHASE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT;

ACTINS; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MUTATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

FUNGI; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0030040263     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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