Cell fusion during yeast mating requires high levels of a-factor mating pheromone

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 135, Issue 6 II, 1996, Pages 1727-1739

  Brizzio, Valeria ^a   Gammie, Alison E ^a   Nijbroek, Gaby ^b   Michaelis, Susan ^b   Rose, Mark D ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MATING HORMONE ALPHA FACTOR; PHEROMONE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CONTACT; CELL FUSION; CELL WALL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; MATING; NONHUMAN; OSMOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; YEAST; ZYGOTE;

ALLELES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; INSULYSIN; LIPOPROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHEROMONES; PLASMIDS; REPRODUCTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSFERASES; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0030479302     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.135.6.1727     Document Type: Article

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