Ubiquitin-dependent degradation of the yeast Matα2 repressor enables a switch in developmental state

Genes and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 2259-2270

  Laney, Jeffrey D ^a,b   Hochstrasser, Mark ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Mating type switching; Protein degradation; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MAT ALPHA2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL LINEAGE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CARRIER PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LIGASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN-CONJUGATING ENZYMES;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0141595062     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1115703     Document Type: Article

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