Two NDR kinase-MOB complexes function as distinct modules during septum formation and tip extension in Neurospora crassa

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 707-723

  Maerz, Sabine ^a,b   Dettmann, Anne ^a   Ziv, Carmit ^c   Liu, Yi ^d   Valerius, Oliver ^a   Yarden, Oded ^c   Seiler, Stephan ^a,b  

^a Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COT1 ENZYME; DBF2 ENZYME; FUNGAL ENZYME; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN MOB1; PROTEIN MOB2A; PROTEIN MOB2B; PROTEIN MOB3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT; FUNGUS GROWTH; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BINDING SITES; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL POLARITY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 70350414427     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06896.x     Document Type: Article

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