Signaling in the yeasts: An informational casacade with links to the filamentous fungi

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 249-274

  Banuett, Flora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCAN SYNTHASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHEROMONE; PROTEIN KINASE C; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN); SEX PHEROMONE;

ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; PATHOGENICITY; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; YEAST;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; REPRODUCTION; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; YEASTS;

EID: 0031596206     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.62.2.249-274.1998     Document Type: Review

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