The yeast ammonium transport protein Mep2 and its positive regulator, the Npr1 kinase, play an important role in normal and pseudohyphal growth on various nitrogen media through retrieval of excreted ammonium

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 534-546

  Boeckstaens, Mélanie ^a   André, Bruno ^a   Marini, Anna Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMMONIA; CARRIER PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; NITROGEN; NPR1 KINASE; PROTEIN MEP2; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CULTURE MEDIUM; EXCRETION; FUNGUS GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSPORT KINETICS; YEAST;

AMINO ACIDS; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; HYPHAE; KINETICS; MUTANT PROTEINS; NITROGEN; PROTEIN KINASES; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 34247338962     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05681.x     Document Type: Article

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