Diversification of a protein kinase cascade: IME-2 is involved in nonself recognition and programmed cell death in Neurospora crassa

Genetics

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 467-482

  Hutchison, Elizabeth A ^a,b   Bueche, Joanna A ^a   Louise Glass, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE MUTATION; IME2 GENE; MITOCHONDRION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIB 1 GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DEATH; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEIOSIS; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84867185148     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.142612     Document Type: Article

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