Mutations in SPK1/RAD53 that specifically abolish checkpoint but not growth related functions

Current Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 97-105

  Fay, David S ^a,c   Sun, Zhaoxia ^a,b   Stern, David F ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Checkpoint control; SPK1 RAD53 MEC2 SAD1; Yeast

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ALLELES; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MUTAGENESIS; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031059414     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050181     Document Type: Article

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