Conserved regulators of the cell separation process in Schizosaccharomyces

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 235-249

  Balazs, Anita ^a   Batta, Gyula ^a   Miklos, Ida ^a   Acs Szabo, Lajos ^a   Vazquez de Aldana, Carlos R ^b   Sipiczki, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cell division; Dimorphism; Evolution; Fission yeast; Hypha; Septum; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

ACE2 PROTEIN; SEP1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

1,3 ALPHA GLUCANASE GENE; 1,3 BETA GLUCANASE GENE; ACE2 GENE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CELL DIVISION; CELL SEPARATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCATION; GROWTH RATE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEP1 GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

FUNGI; MYCELIUM (GENUS); SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES JAPONICUS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 84857998201     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2012.01.003     Document Type: Article

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