The essential Schizosaccharomyces pombe cdc23 DNA replication gene shares structural and functional homology with the Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA43 (MCM10) gene

Current Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 164-171

  Aves, Stephen J ^a   Tongue, Nicholas ^a   Foster, Andrew J ^a   Hart, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cdc23; Cell cycle; DNA replication; Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA REPLICATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0031719593     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050382     Document Type: Article

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