Overproduction of elongation factor 1α, an essential translational component, causes aberrant cell morphology by affecting the control of growth polarity in fission yeast

Genes to Cells

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 517-527

  Suda, Masako ^a   Fukui, Mikiko ^a   Sogabe, Yuki ^a   Sato, Kazuhito ^a   Morimatsu, Akeshi ^c   Arai, Ritsuko ^c   Motegi, Fumio ^c   Miyakawa, Tokichi ^a   Mabuchi, Issei ^c,d   Hirata, Dai ^a,b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYTOCHALASIN D; ELONGATION FACTOR 1ALPHA; TIABENDAZOLE;

ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; THERMOSTABILITY; YEAST;

ACTINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; TEMPERATURE;

EUKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 6544274841     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1999.00279.x     Document Type: Article

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