Isolation and characterization of new fission yeast cytokinesis mutants

Genetics

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1265-1275

  Balasubramanian, Mohan K ^a,b   McCollum, Dannel ^a,c   Chang, Louise ^a   Wong, Kelvin C Y ^b   Naqvi, Naweed I ^a,b   He, Xiangwei ^d   Sazer, Shelley ^d   Gould, Kathleen L ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Institute of Molecular Agrobiology   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CYTOKINESIS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

ACTINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN KINASES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

SACCHAROMYCETALES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0031874731     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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