Identification and characterization of LFD1, a novel protein involved in membrane merger during cell fusion in Neurospora crassa

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 164-182

  Palma Guerrero, Javier ^a   Leeder, Abigail C ^a   Welch, Juliet ^a   Glass, N Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; LFD1 PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 2; PRM1 PROTEIN; SYNAPTOTAGMIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CALCIUM; FUNGAL RNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL FUSION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; FERTILIZATION; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LFD1 GENE; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MEMBRANE MERGER; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; WILD TYPE; FUNGAL MATING TYPE GENE; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; MEMBRANE FUSION; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

CALCIUM; CELL MEMBRANE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; RNA, FUNGAL; SYNAPTOTAGMINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84897107735     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12545     Document Type: Article

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