Article
Prm1 prevents contact-dependent lysis of yeast mating pairs.
Eukaryotic cell - 1 Dec 2004
Jin Hui, Carlile Candice, Nolan Scott, Grote Eric
Abstract excerpt
Membrane fusion requires localized destabilization of two phospholipid bilayers, but unrestrained membrane destabilization could result in lysis. prm1 mutant yeast cells have a defect at the plasma membrane fusion stage of mating that typically results in the accumulation of prezygotes that have fingers of membrane-bound cytoplasm projecting from one cell of each pair into its mating partner in the direction of...
Topics
- Cell Death
- Cell Membrane
- Cytoplasm
- Fungal Proteins
- Genes, Fungal
- Green Fluorescent Proteins
- Lipid Bilayers
- Membrane Proteins
- Mitochondria
- Mutation
- Osmosis
- Phenotype
- Plasmids
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Sorbitol
- Temperature
- Time Factors
