Regulators of pseudohyphal differentiation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae identified through multicopy suppressor analysis in ammonium permease mutant strains

Genetics

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1443-1457

  Lorenz, Michael C ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NITROGEN; PERMEASE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DELETION MUTANT; DIPLOIDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPISTASIS; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPPRESSOR GENE;

CARRIER PROTEINS; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HETEROTRIMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031762569     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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