Yeast pseudohyphal growth is regulated by GPA2, a G protein α homolog

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 7008-7018

  Lorenz, Michael C ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cAMP; Dimorphism; G proteins; Pseudohyphal differentiation; Yeast

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP PHOSPHODIESTERASE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NITROGEN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; EPISTASIS; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GROWTH REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPODIUM; REPORTER GENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YEAST;

ALLELES; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYCLIC AMP; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, REPORTER; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HETEROTRIMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; NITROGEN; RAS PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0030703189     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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