Msn1p/Mss10p, Mss11p and Muc1p/Flo11p are part of a signal transduction pathway downstream of Mep2p regulating invasive growth and pseudohyphal differentiation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 103-116

  Gagiano, Marco ^a   Van Dyk, Dewald ^a   Bauer, Florian F ^a   Lambrechts, Marco G ^a   Pretorius, Isak S ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; RAS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; MAP KINASE KINASE KINASES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RAS PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STARCH; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032948483     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01151.x     Document Type: Article

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