Using the Semi-synthetic Epitope System to Identify Direct Substrates of the Meiosis-Specific Budding Yeast Kinase, Mek1

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 745, Issue , 2011, Pages 135-149

  Lo, Hsiao Chi ^a   Hollingsworth, Nancy M ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

kinase assays; Meiosis; Mek1; Rad54; semi synthetic epitope; yeast

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 1;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

GLUTATHIONE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MAP KINASE KINASE 1; MEIOSIS; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 80053311431     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-129-1_9     Document Type: Chapter

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