Sex-specific posttranslational regulation of the gamete fusogen GCS1 in the isogamous volvocine alga Gonium pectorale

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 648-656

  Kawai Toyooka, Hiroko ^a   Mori, Toshiyuki ^b   Hamaji, Takashi ^c   Suzuki, Masahiro ^a   Olson, Bradley J S C ^d   Uemura, Tomohiro ^a   Ueda, Takashi ^a   Nakano, Akihiko ^a,e   Toyoda, Atsushi ^f   Fujiyama, Asao ^f   Nozaki, Hisayoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Japan   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; EUKARYOTE; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENETICS; GREEN ALGA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GERM CELLS, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84899962551     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00330-13     Document Type: Article

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