Phytochrome-induced expression of lig1, a homologue of the fission yeast cell-cycle checkpoint gene hus1, is associated with the developmental switch in Physarum polycephalum plasmodia

Current Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 86-93

  Kroneder, Roland ^a   Cashmore, Anthony R ^b   Marwan, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Developmental commitment; Mammalian homologue; Sporulation

Indexed keywords

PHYTOCHROME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPOROGENESIS; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; PHYTOCHROME; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPORES; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032855758     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050476     Document Type: Article

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