Byr4, a Dosage-dependent Regulator of Cytokinesis in S. pombe, Interacts with a Possible Small GTPase Pathway Including Spg1 and Cdc16

Molecules and Cells

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 240-245

  Jwa, Miri ^a   Song, Kiwon ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Byr4; Cytokinesis; GTPase Pathway; S. pombe

Indexed keywords

BYR4 PROTEIN, S POMBE; CDC16 PROTEIN, S POMBE; CDC6 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; CDC7 PROTEIN, S POMBE; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIVISION; CYTOLOGY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032579986     PISSN: 10168478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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