The cell-end marker teaa and the microtubule polymerase alpa contribute to microtubule guidance at the hyphal tip cortex of Aspergillus nidulans to provide polarity maintenance

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 126, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 5400-5411

  Takeshita, Norio ^a   Mania, Daniel ^a   Herrero, Saturnino ^a   Ishitsuka, Yuji ^a   Ulrich Nienhaus, G ^a,b,c   Podolski, Marija ^d,e   Howard, Jonathon ^d,e   Fischer, Reinhard ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AlpA; Aspergillus nidulans; Cell end marker; Hyphal tip; Microtubule; Polarity; TeaA; XMAP215

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GROWTH REGULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALPA; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL-END MARKER; HYPHAL TIP; MICROTUBULE; POLARITY; TEAA; XMAP215;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL POLARITY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HYPHAE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84890192602     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: 14779137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.129841     Document Type: Article

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