The Ran GTPase system in fission yeast affects microtubules and cytokinesis in cells that are competent for nucleocytoplasmic protein transport

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 8491-8505

  Salus, Sandra S ^a   Demeter, Janos ^a,b   Sazer, Shelley ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BINDING PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RAN PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT; YEAST;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOSKELETON; ENDOPEPTIDASES; GENES, CDC; GENES, FUNGAL; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RAN GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; THIABENDAZOLE;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 18744408751     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.22.24.8491-8505.2002     Document Type: Article

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