Drc1p/Cps1p, a 1,3-β-glucan synthase subunit, is essential for division septum assembly in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Genetics

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1193-1203

  Liu, Jianhua ^a   Wang, Hongyan ^a   McCollum, Dannel ^b   Balasubramanian, Mohan K ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,3 BETA GLUCAN SYNTHASE; FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; ENZYME SUBUNIT; FUNGUS MUTANT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

FUNGI; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0032731778     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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