The NDR kinase DBF-2 is involved in regulation of mitosis, conidial development, and glycogen metabolism in Neurospora crassa

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 502-513

  Dvash, Efrat ^a   Kra Oz, Galia ^a   Ziv, Carmit ^a   Carmeli, Shmuel ^b   Yarden, Oded ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 1; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLYCOGEN; HYBRID PROTEIN; LATS1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MITOSIS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CDC2 PROTEIN KINASE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GLYCOGEN; HUMANS; HYPHAE; MITOSIS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 77950525169     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00230-09     Document Type: Article

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