Characterization of a fission yeast SUMO-1 homologue, Pmt3p, required for multiple nuclear events, including the control of telomere length and chromosome segregation

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 8660-8672

  Tanaka, Katsunori ^a   Nishide, Junko ^a   Okazaki, Koei ^b   Kato, Hiroaki ^a   Niwa, Osami ^b   Nakagawa, Tsuyoshi ^a   Matsuda, Hideyuki ^a   Kawamukai, Makoto ^a   Murakami, Yota ^c  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAZUSA DNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN PMT3P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENE DISRUPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TELOMERE;

SACCHAROMYCETALES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0033508431     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.12.8660     Document Type: Article

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