Fission yeast Mor2/Cps12, a protein similar to Drosophila furry, is essential for cell morphogenesis and its mutation induces Wee1-dependent G2 delay

EMBO Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 4863-4874

  Hirata, Dai ^a   Kishimoto, Norihito ^a   Suda, Masako ^a   Sogabe, Yuki ^a   Nakagawa, Sayuri ^a   Yoshida, Yasuko ^a   Sakai, Keisuke ^a   Mizunuma, Masaki ^a   Miyakawa, Tokichi ^a   Ishiguro, Junpei ^a   Toda, Takashi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actin; Checkpoint; CLIP170; Furry; Growth polarity

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; F ACTIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; FURRY PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; NDR KINASE; PROTEIN CPS12; PROTEIN MOR2; PROTEIN ORB6; PROTEIN TIP1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WEE1 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL GROWTH; CELL POLARITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FUNGAL GENE; GENE MUTATION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; YEAST CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL SIZE; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; G2 PHASE; GENES, REPORTER; INSECT PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TEMPERATURE;

EUKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 18544389711     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdf495     Document Type: Article

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