Mutants in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae RAS2 gene influence life span, cytoskeleton, and regulation of mitosis

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 774-781

  Pichová, Alena ^a,b   Vondráková, Dagmar ^a,b   Breitenbach, Michael ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aging; Morphology; Oncogene; RAS; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Yeast

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; LIFESPAN; MITOSIS RATE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MORPHOLOGY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE RAS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030854205     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/m97-111     Document Type: Article

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