The KISTE2 and KISTE3 genes encode MATα- and MATa-specific G-protein-coupled receptors, respectively, which are required for mating of Kluyveromyces lactis haploid cells

Yeast

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-25

  Torres Quiroz, Francisco ^a   Kawasaki, Laura ^a   Rodríguez González, Miriam ^a   Patrón Soberano, Araceli ^a   Coria, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

G protein; GPCR; KISte2p; KISTe3p; Kluyveromyces lactis; Pheromone receptors

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNIT; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; PHEROMONE; PHEROMONE RECEPTOR; FUNGAL DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FUNGAL CELL; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; HAPLOIDY; KLUYVEROMYCES; MATING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RECEPTOR BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DNA, FUNGAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; HAPLOIDY; KLUYVEROMYCES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHEROMONES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, PHEROMONE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 33846988986     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: 10970061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1432     Document Type: Article

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