PRO40 Is a Scaffold Protein of the Cell Wall Integrity Pathway, Linking the MAP Kinase Module to the Upstream Activator Protein Kinase C

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Teichert, Ines ^a   Steffens, Eva Katharina ^a   Schnaß, Nicole ^a   Fränzel, Benjamin ^a   Krisp, Christoph ^a   Wolters, Dirk A ^a   Kück, Ulrich ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE KINASE; PRO40 PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE C; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FUNGAL PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; CELL FUSION; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL CELL WALL; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIK1 GENE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PURIFICATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SORDARIA MACROSPORA; SORDARIALES; SYMBIOSIS; TANDEM AFFINITY PURIFICATION; TIME; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; CELL WALL; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CELL WALL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MAP KINASE KINASE KINASES; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASE C; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84907584812     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004582     Document Type: Article

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