Characterization of CHS4 (CAL2), a gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae involved in chitin biosynthesis and allelic to SKT5 and CSD4

Yeast

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 795-807

  Trilla, Jose Angel ^a   Cos, Teresa ^a   Duran, Angel ^a   Roncero, Cesar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Calcofluor resistance; Chitin synthase III; Morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; CHITIN SYNTHASE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; FUNGUS MUTANT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ALLELES; BENZENESULFONATES; CHITIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030839344     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(199707)13:9<795::AID-YEA139>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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