A fission yeast gene, him1+/dfp1+, encoding a regulatory subunit for Hsk1 kinase, plays essential roles in S-phase initiation as well as in S- phase checkpoint control and recovery from DNA damage

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 5535-5547

  Takeda, Tadayuki ^a,b   Ogino, Keiko ^a,b   Matsui, Etsuko ^a,b   Cho, Min Kwan ^a   Kumagai, Hiroyuki ^a   Miyake, Tsuyoshi ^a,c   Arai, Ken Ichi ^a,b   Masai, Hisao ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL GROWTH; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; DNA DAMAGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0032814213     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.8.5535     Document Type: Article

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