Nutritional Control of Cell Growth via TOR Signaling in Budding Yeast

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 759, Issue , 2011, Pages 307-319

  Wei, Yuehua ^a   Zheng, X F Steven ^a  

^a RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

autophagy; budding yeast; cell growth; nutrient; nutrition; protein translation; ribosome biogenesis; signal transduction; TOR (target of rapamycin)

Indexed keywords

TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CELL PROLIFERATION; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; RIBOSOMES; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 80054726081     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-173-4_18     Document Type: Chapter

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