Exogenous inositol and genes responsible for inositol transport are required for mating and sporulation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Current Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 255-261

  Niederberger, Christian ^a   Gräub, Remo ^a   Schweingruber, Anne Marie ^a   Fankhauser, Hans ^a   Rusu, Mircea ^b   Poitelea, Marius ^b   Edenharter, Lore ^a   Schweingruber, M Ernst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b GRIGORE T POPA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Inositol transport; Mating; Schizosaccharomyces pombe; Sporulation

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; INOSITOL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; CARBOHYDRATE TRANSPORT; CULTURE MEDIUM; FUNGAL GENETICS; LIFE CYCLE; MATING; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPOROGENESIS; SUPPRESSOR GENE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; INOSITOL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 0031894125     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050334     Document Type: Article

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