Constitutive activation of the fission yeast pheromone-responsive pathway induces ectopic meiosis and reveals Ste11 as a mitogen-activated protein kinase target

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 2045-2059

  Kjærulff, Søren ^a,b   Lautrup Larsen, Inger ^a,c   Truelsen, Søren ^a   Pedersen, Morten ^a   Nielsen, Olaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NOVO NORDISK A S   (Denmark)

^c Alpharma ApS ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NITROGEN; PHEROMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR STE11; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; EPISTASIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HAPLOIDY; MEIOSIS; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; YEAST;

CATALYTIC DOMAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HAPLOIDY; MAP KINASE KINASE KINASES; MEIOSIS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MUTATION; NITROGEN; PHEROMONES; PHOSPHORYLATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 14044279884     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.25.5.2045-2059.2005     Document Type: Article

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