Ime1 and Ime2 are required for pseudohyphal growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae on nonfermentable carbon sources

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 5514-5530

  Strudwick, Natalie ^a   Brown, Max ^a   Parmar, Vipul M ^a   Schröder, Martin ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; PROTEIN IME1; PROTEIN IME2; PROTEIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBON SOURCE; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; YEAST CELL;

BASE SEQUENCE; CARBON; CYCLIC AMP; DNA, FUNGAL; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FERMENTATION; GENES, FUNGAL; HYPHAE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NITROGEN; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 78649741577     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: 10985549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00390-10     Document Type: Article

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