A starvation-specific serine protease gene, isp6+, is involved in both autophagy and sexual development in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Current Genetics

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 403-413

  Nakashima, Akio ^a,c   Hasegawa, Takahiro ^a   Mori, Saori ^a,d   Ueno, Masaru ^a   Tanaka, Shigeyasu ^a   Ushimaru, Takashi ^a   Sato, Shusei ^b   Uritani, Masahiro ^a,e  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAZUSA DNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autophagy; Fission yeast; Nitrogen starvation; Protein degradation; Sexual development

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; NITROGEN; PROTEIN ISP6; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN MALNUTRITION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TEMPERATURE;

AUTOPHAGY; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MEIOSIS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NITROGEN; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

FUNGI; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 33646711004     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-006-0067-0     Document Type: Article

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