Identification of novel temperature-sensitive lethal alleles in essential β-tubulin and nonessential α2-tubulin genes as fission yeast polarity mutants

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1757-1771

  Radcliffe, Pippa ^a   Hirata, Dai ^a,b   Childs, Dylan ^a   Vardy, Leah ^a   Toda, Takashi ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN;

ALLELE; ALLELISM; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL STRUCTURE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LETHAL MUTANT; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0031817512     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.9.7.1757     Document Type: Article

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