Functional dissection of the γ-tubulin complex by suppressor analysis of gtb1 and alp4 mutations in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Genetics

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1095-1107

  Tange, Yoshie ^a   Fujita, Akiko ^b   Toda, Takashi ^b   Niwa, Osami ^a  

^a KAZUSA DNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; AMINO ACID; GAMMA TUBULIN; KINESIN; PROTEIN; TIABENDAZOLE;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GEL FILTRATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SPOROGENESIS;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; COLD; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; REPRODUCTION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPORES; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; THIABENDAZOLE; TUBULIN;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 3843148390     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.027946     Document Type: Article

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