Mating in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: The role of the pheromone signal transduction pathway in the chemotropic response to pheromone

Genetics

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-32

  Schrick, Kathrin ^a,c   Garvik, Barbara ^a,b   Hartwell, Leland H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHEROMONE;

ARTICLE; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; YEAST;

CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CHEMOTAXIS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, FUNGAL; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HETEROTRIMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; LIPOPROTEINS; MUTATION; PEPTIDES; PHEROMONES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030884623     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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