Roles of putative Rho-GEF Gef2 in division-site positioning and contractile-ring function in fission yeast cytokinesis

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1181-1195

  Ye, Yanfang ^a   Lee, I Ju ^a   Runge, Kurt W ^b   Wu, Jian Qiu ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; POLO LIKE KINASE; RHO FACTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL AMYGDALA; CYTOKINESIS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; YEAST;

ACTIN CYTOSKELETON; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOKINESIS; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, FUNGAL; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; MUTATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 84859415398     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: 19394586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E11-09-0800     Document Type: Article

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