A novel nonnull ZIP1 allele triggers meiotic arrest with synapsed chromosomes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Genetics

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 773-787

  Mitra, Neal ^a   Roeder, G Shirleen ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; LEUCINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PCH 2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZIP 1 PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL GROWTH; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSSING OVER; GENE MUTATION; KINETICS; MEIOSIS; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DEFECT; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPOROGENESIS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; WILD TYPE;

CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA PRIMERS; GENOTYPE; MEIOSIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPORES, FUNGAL; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SYNAPSIS;

EID: 34250787146     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.071100     Document Type: Article

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