The Xenopus laevis morphogenetic factor, tumorhead, causes defects in polarized growth and cytokinesis in the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 325, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 439-444

  Wu, Chuan Fen ^a   Yang, Peirong ^a   Traverso, Edwin E ^a   Etkin, Laurence D ^a   Marcus, Stevan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Cytokinesis; Cytoskeleton; Fission yeast; Microtubules; Morphogenesis; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

F ACTIN; GENE PRODUCT; MORPHOGEN; PROTEIN; TUMORHEAD PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSKELETON; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROTUBULE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELL POLARITY; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSKELETON; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

AMPHIBIA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 7644235542     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.10.046     Document Type: Article

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