Signal transduction by MAP kinase cascades in budding yeast

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 175-182

  Posas, Francesc ^a   Takekawa, Mutsuhiro ^a   Saito, Haruo ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

FUNGAL PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN); PROTEIN KINASE C;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MATING FACTOR; METABOLISM; OSMOLARITY; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PEPTIDES; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE C; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0032035043     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(98)80008-8     Document Type: Article

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