A novel fission yeast gene, tht1+, is required for the fusion of nuclear envelopes during karyogamy

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 247-258

  Tange, Yoshie ^a   Horio, Tetsuya ^a,c   Shimanuki, Mizuki ^a   Ding, Da Qiao ^b   Hiraoka, Yasushi ^b   Niwa, Osami ^a  

^a KAZUSA DNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; GLYCOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GLYCOSYLATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; KARYOGAMY; MEIOSIS; MEMBRANE FUSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOPROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; NUCLEAR FUSION; PHENOTYPE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SPORES;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0032567713     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.140.2.247     Document Type: Article

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