TOR signaling in fission yeast

Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 277-283

  Otsubo, Yoko ^a   Yamamato, Masayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell growth; Rapamycin; Rheb; Sexual development; TORC; TSC

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTEIN TOR1; PROTEIN TOR2; PROTEIN TORC1; PROTEIN TORC2; RAPAMYCIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEIN; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; FISSION YEAST; GROWTH INHIBITION; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; YEAST;

ANIMALS; G1 PHASE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIROLIMUS;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 50649105472     PISSN: 10409238     EISSN: 15497798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10409230802254911     Document Type: Review

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