The Schizosaccharomyces pombe spo6+ gene encoding a nuclear protein with sequence similarity to budding yeast Dbf4 is required for meiotic second division and sporulation

Genes to Cells

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 463-479

  Nakamura, Tomohiro ^a,b   Kishida, Masao ^a   Shimoda, Chikashi ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b OSAKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SPOROGENESIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; CAFFEINE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPORES, FUNGAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0033922891     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.2000.00343.x     Document Type: Article

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