The Essential Phosphoinositide Kinase MSS-4 Is Required for Polar Hyphal Morphogenesis, Localizing to Sites of Growth and Cell Fusion in Neurospora crassa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Mähs, Anette ^a,c   Ischebeck, Till ^a,d   Heilig, Yvonne ^b,e   Stenzel, Irene ^a,f   Hempel, Franziska ^a,f   Seiler, Stephan ^b,e   Heilmann, Ingo ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^f MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 4 PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 4,5 BISPHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL KINASE; PHOSPHOINOSITIDE KINASE MSS 4; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; CELL DIVISION; CELL FUSION; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESSENTIAL GENE; FLUORESCENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MAMMAL; MORPHOGENESIS; MSS 4 GENE; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; POLLEN TUBE GROWTH; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RECOMBINANT GENE; SEPTATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; YEAST;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 4-KINASE; ALLELES; CELL FUSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYPHAE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); POLLEN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE;

MAMMALIA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 84871276344     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051454     Document Type: Article

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