Role of the α-glucanase Agn2p in ascus-wall endolysis following sporulation in fission yeast

Yeast

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 279-288

  Dekker, Nick ^a   van Rijssel, Jos ^a   Distel, Ben ^a   Hochstenbach, Frans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

glucanase; Ascus; Endolysis; Fission yeast; Sporulation

Indexed keywords

1,3 ALPHA GLUCAN; ALPHA GLUCAN GLUCOSIDASE; CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; ENDO 1,3 BETA GLUCANASE; GLUCAN; GLUCAN GLUCOSIDASE; PENTASACCHARIDE; PROTEIN AGN1P; PROTEIN AGN2; PROTEIN AGN2P; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASCOSPORE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPOROGENESIS; YEAST;

CELL WALL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; HYDROLYSIS; MUTATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SPORES, FUNGAL; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

FUNGI; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 34247897002     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: 10970061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1464     Document Type: Article

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