Inactivation of the pre-mRNA cleavage and polyadenylation factor Pfs2 in fission yeast causes lethal cell cycle defects

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2288-2296

  Wang, Shao Win ^a   Asakawa, Kazuhide ^c,d   Win, Thein Z ^a   Toda, Takashi ^c   Norbury, Chris J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEAVAGE AND POLYADENYLATION SPECIFICITY FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE DELETION; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MUTANT; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLOIDY; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; YEAST;

CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA REPLICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MRNA CLEAVAGE AND POLYADENYLATION FACTORS; NITROGEN; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RNA 3' END PROCESSING; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, MESSENGER; S PHASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 14844345009     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.25.6.2288-2296.2005     Document Type: Article

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