Article
Actin- and tubulin-dependent functions during Saccharomyces cerevisiae mating projection formation.
Molecular biology of the cell - 1 Apr 1992
Read E B, Okamura H H, Drubin D G
Abstract excerpt
Several conditional-lethal mutant alleles of the single-copy Saccharomyces cerevisiae beta-tubulin and actin genes were used to evaluate the roles of microtubules and actin filaments in the pheromone-induced extension of mating projections. Mutants defective in tubulin assembly form projections indistinguishable in appearance from those formed by wild-type cells. However, the tubulin mutants are unable to move...
Topics
- Actins
- Cell Nucleus
- Cell Polarity
- Conjugation, Genetic
- Cytoskeleton
- Fluorescent Antibody Technique
- Microtubules
- Morphogenesis
- Mutation
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Sex Attractants
