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Regulated mRNA stability of the Cdk inhibitor Rum1 links nutrient status to cell cycle progression.
Current biology : CB - 2 Dec 2003
Daga Rafael R, Bolaños Pilar, Moreno Sergio
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The survival of a cell depends on continuous sensing of the nutritional environment and appropriate coordination of the cell cycle. The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe is an excellent model system in which to study these processes. In the presence of nutrients, fission yeast cells grow and divide, spending most of their time in G2; when nutrients are limiting, they are promoted into mitosis...
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