Tales of RAM and MOR: NDR kinase signaling in fungal morphogenesis

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 663-671

  Maerz, Sabine ^a   Seiler, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL ENZYME; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEAR DBF2 RELATED KINASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; RAB PROTEIN; RHO FACTOR; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL FUNCTION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME REGULATION; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PROTEIN KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 78649702374     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2010.08.010     Document Type: Review

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