Cla4 kinase triggers destruction of the Rac1-GEF Cdc24 during polarized growth in Ustilago maydis

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 22, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 3253-3262

  Frieser, Sonja Helene ^a   Hlubek, Andrea ^a   Sandrock, Björn ^a   Bol̈ker, Michael ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEIN BEM1; PROTEIN CDC24; PROTEIN CLA4; RAC1 PROTEIN; RHO FACTOR; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; FILAMENTOUS ALGA; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; USTILAGO MAYDIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DOWN-REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HYPHAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEOLYSIS; RAC1 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; USTILAGO;

FUNGI; USTILAGO MAYDIS;

EID: 80052235775     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: 19394586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E11-04-0314     Document Type: Article

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