RAS/cyclic AMP and transcription factor Msn2 regulate mating and mating-type switching in the yeast kluyveromyces lactis

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1545-1552

  Barsoum, E ^a   Rajaei, N ^a   Astrom S U ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHODIESTERASE 2; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 2A; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; KLUYVEROMYCES; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHODIESTERASES, TYPE 2; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P16; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; KLUYVEROMYCES; PHENOTYPE; RAS PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ASCOMYCOTA; KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS;

EID: 80055118412     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.05158-11     Document Type: Article

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