Analysis of the cps1 gene provides evidence for a septation checkpoint in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 262, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 163-172

  Le Goff, X ^a   Woollard, A ^b,c   Simanis, V ^a  

^a SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

1,3 D glucan synthase; Actin; Cell cycle; Cytokinesis; Mitosis

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; GLUCAN SYNTHASE; PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL WALL; CYTOKINESIS; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENE ISOLATION; MITOSIS; PLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TEMPERATURE; YEAST;

ACTINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CELL WALL; DNA, FUNGAL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENES, FUNGAL; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PLOIDIES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE; TUBULIN;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0032867393     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380051071     Document Type: Article

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