The nuclear GTPase Gsp1p can affect proper telomeric function through the Sir4 protein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 453-468

  Clément, Martin ^a   Deshaies, Francis ^a   De Repentigny, Louis ^a   Belhumeur, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RAN PROTEIN; SIR4 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE;

CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MONOMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; RAN GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEINS, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 33749166634     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05374.x     Document Type: Article

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