Cloning and characterization of the S. pombe gene efc25+, a new putative guanine nucleotide exchange factor

Gene

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 203-210

  Tratner, Isabelle ^a   Fourticq Esqueöute, Aude ^a   Tillit, Jeanne ^a   Baldacci, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UPR 9044   (France)

Author keywords

Cell morphology; Ras

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, RECOMBINANT; GENES, FUNGAL; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PROTEINS; RAS GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES KLUYVERI; SACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0030834191     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00115-7     Document Type: Article

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