Yeast mating: getting close to membrane merger.
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.
White
J M
JM
Department of Cell Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA. jw7g@virginia.edu
Rose
M D
MD
D002448:Cell Adhesion; D002462:Cell Membrane; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D008561:Membrane Fusion; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000502:physiology*
D005656:Fungal Proteins