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An essential role of the yeast pheromone-induced Ca2+ signal is to activate calcineurin.
Molecular biology of the cell - 1 Feb 1997
Withee J L, Mulholland J, Jeng R, Cyert M S
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies showed that, in wild-type (MATa) cells, alpha-factor causes an essential rise in cytosolic Ca2+. We show that calcineurin, the Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein phosphatase, is one target of this Ca2+ signal. Calcineurin mutants lose viability when incubated with mating pheromone, and overproduction of constitutively active (Ca(2+)-independent) calcineurin improves the viability of wild-type...
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