The Ime2 protein kinase family in fungi: More duties than just meiosis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-13

  Irniger, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; INDUCER OF MEIOSIS 2 PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN CRK1; PROTEIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCETES; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE EXPRESSION; INDUCER OF MEIOSIS 2 GENE; MATING; MDE3 GENE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR DIVISION; PIT1 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPOROGENESIS; USTILAGO MAYDIS;

INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEIOSIS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SPORES, FUNGAL;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES; USTILAGO MAYDIS;

EID: 79953043225     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07575.x     Document Type: Review

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