Spo5/Mug12, a putative meiosis-specific RNA-binding protein, is essential for meiotic progression and forms Mei2 dot-like nuclear foci

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1301-1313

  Kasama, Takashi ^a   Shigehisa, Akira ^a   Hirata, Aiko ^b   Saito, Takamune T ^a   Tougan, Takahiro ^a   Okuzaki, Daisuke ^a   Nojima, Hiroshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEI2 PROTEIN, S POMBE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEIN; SPO5 PROTEIN, S POMBE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETICS; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPORES, FUNGAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EQUISETUM; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 33747337518     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00099-06     Document Type: Article

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