Polarity establishment in yeast.
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چکیده
The unicellular yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a model system for the establishment of cell polarity. Yeast cells proliferate by budding, which involves specialization of a small patch of the mother cell cortex and polarization of many cell constituents towards that patch, promoting growth of the bud. Genetic approaches have uncovered a large number of genes involved in these processes, yielding a working model for polarity establishment.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of cell science
دوره 117 Pt 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004