Overlapping omt1+ and omt2+ genes are required for spore wall maturation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Genes to Cells

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 547-558

  Kakihara, Yoshito ^a   Nabeshima, Kentaro ^a   Hirata, Aiko ^b   Nojima, Hiroshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; FUNGAL RNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEIN OMT1; PROTEIN OMT2; PROTEIN OMT3; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CELL WALL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, OVERLAPPING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYDRO-LYASES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEIOSIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SPORES, FUNGAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0038339532     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.2003.00654.x     Document Type: Article

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