RIC8 is a guanine-nucleotide exchange factor for Gα subunits that regulates growth and development in Neurospora crassa

Genetics

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 165-176

  Wright, Sara J ^a   Inchausti, Regina ^a   Eaton, Carla J ^a   Krystofova, Svetlana ^a   Borkovich, Katherine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNIT; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; RIC8 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GROWTH INHIBITION; GROWTH REGULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IN VITRO STUDY; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; YEAST;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 80052647777     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.111.129270     Document Type: Article

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