Comparative live-cell imaging analyses of SPA-2, BUD-6 and BNI-1 in Neurospora crassa reveal novel features of the filamentous fungal polarisome

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Lichius, Alexander ^a,b   Yáñez Gutiérrez, Mario E ^a   Read, Nick D ^b   Castro Longoria, Ernestina ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN BNI 1; PROTEIN BUD 6; PROTEIN SPA 2; PROTEIN SPK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FUNGAL POLARISOME; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL STRUCTURES; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVE CELL IMAGING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGENERATION; REPOLARIZATION; CELL POLARITY; FUNGUS; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

FUNGI; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

CELL FUSION; CELL POLARITY; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGENERATION; SPORES, FUNGAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84856179599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030372     Document Type: Article

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