Novel Cdc42-binding proteins Gic1 and Gic2 control cell polarity in yeast

Genes and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 2972-2982

  Brown, Jeffrey L ^a,c   Jaquenoud, Malika ^b   Gulli, Marie Pierre ^b   Chant, John ^a   Peter, Matthias ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^c MILLENNIUM PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Polarization; Rho GTPases; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; CYTOSKELETON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030715361     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.11.22.2972     Document Type: Article

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