Positive Feedback of NDT80 Expression Ensures Irreversible Meiotic Commitment in Budding Yeast

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Tsuchiya, Dai ^a   Yang, Yang ^a   Lacefield, Soni ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; NDT80 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CDC5 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FUNGAL DNA; NDT80 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; FUNGAL GENE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MEIOSIS; MEITOTIC COMMITMENT; METAPHASE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NDT80 GENE; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PROMETAPHASE; SPOROGENESIS; WILD TYPE; YEAST; BIOSYNTHESIS; GAMETOGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROFLUIDICS; PROCEDURES; PROMOTER REGION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPINDLE APPARATUS;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GAMETOGENESIS; MEIOSIS; MICROFLUIDICS; PROMETAPHASE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SPINDLE APPARATUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84903433737     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004398     Document Type: Article

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