Genetic evidence for a microtubule-destabilizing effect of conventional kinesin and analysis of its consequences for the control of nuclear distribution in Aspergillus nidulans

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 121-132

  Requena, Natalia ^a,d   Alberti Segui, Cristina ^b   Winzenburg, Else ^a   Horn, Christian ^c   Schliwa, Manfred ^c   Philippsen, Peter ^b   Liese, Ralf ^a   Fischer, Reinhard ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; BENOMYL; KINESIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GROWTH; GROWTH RATE; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MICROTUBULE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TEMPERATURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL NUCLEUS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; KINESIN; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULES; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TEMPERATURE;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI;

EID: 0035723385     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02609.x     Document Type: Article

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