Actin-dependent localization of an RNA encoding a cell-fate determinant in the yeast

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6646, 1997, Pages 90-93

  Takizawa, Peter A ^a,b   Sil, Anita ^b   Swedlow, Jason R ^b   Herskowitz, Ira ^b   Vale, Ronald D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; RNA TRANSPORT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST;

ACTINS; ANAPHASE; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL DIVISION; CYTOSKELETON; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0030930836     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/38015     Document Type: Article

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