Heat-induced cell cycle arrest of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Involvement of the RAD6/UBC2 and WSC2 genes in its reversal

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 729-739

  Raboy, Bilha ^a   Marom, Anat ^a   Dor, Yuval ^a   Kulka, Richard G ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLINE; FUNGAL DNA; UBIQUITIN CONJUGATING ENZYME;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEAT SENSITIVITY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CYCLINS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, CDC; GENES, FUNGAL; HEAT; INTERPHASE; LIGASES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; UBIQUITIN-CONJUGATING ENZYMES;

EID: 0033048143     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01389.x     Document Type: Article

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