Yeast mating: Getting close to membrane merger

被引:49
作者
White, JM [1 ]
Rose, MD
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[1] Univ Virginia, Dept Cell Biol, Charlottesville, VA 22908 USA
[2] Princeton Univ, Dept Mol Biol, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
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10.1016/S0960-9822(00)00036-1
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The machinery that mediates membrane fusion during yeast mating has remained elusive. But now a post-genomics approach has provided a powerful wedge into this difficult problem: a pheromone-induced multimembrane spanning protein has been identified as a key part of the mating machine.
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