Fission yeast Pob1p, which is homologous to budding yeast Boi proteins and exhibits subcellular localization close to actin patches, is essential for cell elongation and separation

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2745-2757

  Toya, Mika ^a   Iino, Yuichi ^a   Yamamoto, Masayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL SEPARATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GROWTH INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CITRUS LIMON; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0032784329     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.10.8.2745     Document Type: Article

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