Genetic control of telomere integrity in Schizosaccharomyces pombe: rad3+ and tel1+ are parts of two regulatory networks independent of the downstream protein kinases chk1+ and cds1+

Genetics

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1501-1512

  Matsuura, Akira ^a   Naito, Taku ^a   Ishikawa, Fuyuki ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METABOLISM; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TELOMERE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA HELICASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; OROTIC ACID; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEINS; RADIATION TOLERANCE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TELOMERE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0344809966     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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