Isolation of a new set of Aspergillus nidulans mutants defective in nuclear migration

Current Genetics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 626-630

  Xiang, Xin ^a   Zuo, Wenqi ^a   Efimov, Vladimir P ^a   Morris, N Ronald ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

A. nidulans; Arp1; Cytoplasmic dynein; Nuclear migration

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL MIGRATION; CELL NUCLEUS; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS MUTANT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBE;

ACTINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; NUDA;

EID: 0032782945     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050461     Document Type: Article

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