The CDK-activating kinase CAK1 can dosage suppress sporulation defects of smk1 MAP kinase mutants and is required for spore wall morphogenesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1305-1317

  Wagner, Marisa ^a   Pierce, Michael ^a   Winter, Edward ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CAK; Development; MAP kinase; Sporulation; Yeast

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; THREONINE;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MEIOSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPOROGENESIS;

ALLELES; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0343907275     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.6.1305     Document Type: Article

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