Mutations in genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae encoding pre-mRNA splicing factors cause cell cycle arrest through activation of the spindle checkpoint

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 30, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 4361-4370

  Dahan, Orna ^a   Kupiec, Martin ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; INTRON; LETHALITY; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MUTATION; NOCODAZOLE; PHENOTYPE; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE; TUBULIN;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0037109197     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf563     Document Type: Article

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