Chitin synthase III activity, but not the chitin ring, is required for remedial septa formation in budding yeast

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 224, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 299-305

  Cabib, Enrico ^a,b   Schmidt, Martin ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chitin; Chitin synthases; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Septation

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; CHITIN SYNTHASE; NIKKOMYCIN Z;

ARTICLE; BUDDING; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CELL VIABILITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FUNGUS MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; WILD TYPE; YEAST;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0042208064     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00477-4     Document Type: Article

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