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protein coding gene - paf1 (SPAC664.03) - RNA polymerase II associated Paf1 complex

Gene summary

Standard name
paf1
Systematic ID
SPAC664.03
Product
RNA polymerase II associated Paf1 complex
Organism
Schizosaccharomyces pombe (fission yeast)
UniProt ID
Q9US06
ORFeome ID
21/21G04
Characterisation status
biological role published
Feature type
mRNA gene
Genomic location
chromosome I: 1708782..1710347 forward strand

Annotation

GO biological process

GO:0033696 - heterochromatin boundary formation

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GO:0006368 - transcription elongation by RNA polymerase II

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GO cellular component

GO:0016593 - Cdc73/Paf1 complex

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GO:0005829 - cytosol

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GO:0005634 - nucleus

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GO molecular function

GO:0003682 - chromatin binding

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GO:0005515 - protein binding

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GO:0000993 - RNA polymerase II complex binding

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Modification

MOD:00046 - O-phospho-L-serine

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MOD:00048 - O4'-phospho-L-tyrosine

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MOD:00696 - phosphorylated residue

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Multi-locus phenotype

FYPO:0002827 - decreased chromatin silencing at silent mating-type cassette

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FYPO:0001355 - decreased vegetative cell population growth

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FYPO:0002360 - normal chromatin silencing at centromere

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FYPO:0008380 - normal histone H2A phosphorylation during cellular response to camptothecin

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FYPO:0005602 - normal subtelomeric heterochromatin RNA level

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FYPO:0001357 - normal vegetative cell population growth

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FYPO:0000091 - sensitive to thiabendazole

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Quantitative gene expression

PBO:0006310 - protein level

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PBO:0011963 - RNA level

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Single locus phenotype

FYPO:0003625 - abnormal microtubule cytoskeleton morphology during mitotic interphase

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FYPO:0002922 - abolished histone H2B-K119 ubiquitination during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0002917 - abolished histone H3-K4 methylation during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0000080 - decreased cell population growth at low temperature

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FYPO:0003743 - decreased cell population growth during glucose starvation

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FYPO:0009075 - decreased cell population growth on fructose carbon source

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FYPO:0009053 - decreased cell population growth on glutamate nitrogen source

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FYPO:0009100 - decreased cell population growth on glycerol and galactose carbon source

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FYPO:0000684 - decreased cell population growth on glycerol carbon source

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FYPO:0009092 - decreased cell population growth on lysine and serine nitrogen source

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FYPO:0002924 - decreased cell population growth on maltose carbon source

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FYPO:0000250 - decreased cell population growth on proline nitrogen source

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FYPO:0009097 - decreased cell population growth on xylose carbon source

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FYPO:0000708 - decreased mating efficiency

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FYPO:0000470 - decreased mating type switching

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FYPO:0001324 - decreased protein level during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0001355 - decreased vegetative cell population growth

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FYPO:0006985 - heterochromatin assembly beyond boundary element IRL

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FYPO:0009094 - increased cell population growth on lysine and proline nitrogen source

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FYPO:0009072 - increased cell population growth on lysine nitrogen source

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FYPO:0006299 - increased chromatin silencing at centromere outer repeat

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FYPO:0004376 - increased chromatin silencing at silent mating-type cassette

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FYPO:0004542 - increased chromatin silencing at subtelomere

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FYPO:0006518 - loss of viability in G0

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FYPO:0000245 - loss of viability in stationary phase

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FYPO:0007553 - normal G1 to G0 transition

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FYPO:0008380 - normal histone H2A phosphorylation during cellular response to camptothecin

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FYPO:0002920 - normal histone H3-K36 methylation during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0000472 - normal mating type switching

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FYPO:0006991 - normal spatial extent of heterochromatin assembly at protein coding gene

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FYPO:0005602 - normal subtelomeric heterochromatin RNA level

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FYPO:0001357 - normal vegetative cell population growth

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FYPO:0009036 - resistance to benzamidine

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FYPO:0009031 - resistance to bleomycin

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FYPO:0000067 - resistance to brefeldin A

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FYPO:0000763 - resistance to cadmium

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FYPO:0000073 - resistance to caffeine

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FYPO:0000764 - resistance to cycloheximide

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FYPO:0009038 - resistance to egtazic acid

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FYPO:0009034 - resistance to ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid

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FYPO:0002578 - resistance to hydroxyurea

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FYPO:0005969 - resistance to magnesium chloride

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FYPO:0009087 - resistance to magnesium chloride and sodium dodecyl sulfate

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FYPO:0009043 - resistance to potassium chloride and sodium dodecyl sulfate

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FYPO:0002767 - resistance to terbinafine

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FYPO:0003383 - resistance to tert-butyl hydroperoxide

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FYPO:0001034 - resistance to tunicamycin

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FYPO:0000830 - resistance to vanadate

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FYPO:0001097 - sensitive to amitrole

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FYPO:0009067 - sensitive to amorolfine

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FYPO:0009080 - sensitive to calcofluor and sodium dodecyl sulfate

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FYPO:0001188 - sensitive to Calcofluor White

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FYPO:0000104 - sensitive to cycloheximide

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FYPO:0000799 - sensitive to diamide

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FYPO:0000842 - sensitive to ethanol during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0000785 - sensitive to formamide

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FYPO:0000087 - sensitive to hydrogen peroxide

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FYPO:0001719 - sensitive to lithium

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FYPO:0009084 - sensitive to lithium chloride and methyl methanesulfonate

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FYPO:0009086 - sensitive to lithium chloride and sodium dodecyl sulfate

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FYPO:0009088 - sensitive to magnesium chloride and sodium dodecyl sulfate

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FYPO:0000089 - sensitive to methyl methanesulfonate

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FYPO:0009082 - sensitive to potassium chloride and methyl methanesulfonate

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FYPO:0007924 - sensitive to potassium chloride and sodium dodecyl sulfate

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FYPO:0000111 - sensitive to rapamycin

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FYPO:0005889 - sensitive to sodium chloride

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FYPO:0009090 - sensitive to sodium chloride and sodium dodecyl sulfate

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FYPO:0000841 - sensitive to sodium dodecyl sulfate

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FYPO:0007938 - sensitive to tea tree oil

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FYPO:0002701 - sensitive to torin1

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FYPO:0001492 - viable elongated vegetative cell

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FYPO:0002060 - viable vegetative cell population

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FYPO:0002197 - viable vegetative cell with abnormal cell shape

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FYPO:0002177 - viable vegetative cell with normal cell morphology

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Taxonomic conservation

PBO:0011065 - conserved in eukaryotes

PBO:0011071 - conserved in eukaryotes only

PBO:0011064 - conserved in fungi

PBO:0011069 - conserved in metazoa

PBO:0011070 - conserved in vertebrates

PBO:0006222 - predominantly single copy (one to one)

Warnings

PBO:0000070 - gene structure updated

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Protein features

IDNameInterPro nameDB name
PF03985Paf1RNA_pol_II-assoc_Paf1PFAM
PTHR23188RNA POLYMERASE II-ASSOCIATED FACTOR 1 HOMOLOGRNA_pol_II-assoc_Paf1PANTHER
CoilCoilCOILS
mobidb-lite-Disorderdisorder_predictionMOBIDB-Disorder
mobidb-lite-Polardisorder_predictionMOBIDB-Polar
mobidb-lite-Polyampholytedisorder_predictionMOBIDB-Polyampholyte

Orthologs

References / Literature

PMID:24385927 - The PAF complex and Prf1/Rtf1 delineate distinct Cdk9-dependent pathways regulating transcription elongation in fission yeast.
Mbogning J et al. PLoS Genet 2013;9(12):e1004029
PMID:19547744 - Evolution of phosphoregulation: comparison of phosphorylation patterns across yeast species.
Beltrao P et al. PLoS Biol 2009 Jun 16;7(6):e1000134
PMID:20473289 - Analysis of a genome-wide set of gene deletions in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Kim DU et al. Nat Biotechnol 2010 Jun;28(6):617-623
PMID:25373780 - A genomic Multiprocess survey of machineries that control and link cell shape, microtubule organization, and cell-cycle progression.
Graml V et al. Dev Cell 2014 Oct 27;31(2):227-239
PMID:29852001 - New insights into donor directionality of mating-type switching in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Maki T et al. PLoS Genet 2018 May;14(5):e1007424
PMID:24100010 - Spt6 regulates intragenic and antisense transcription, nucleosome positioning, and histone modifications genome-wide in fission yeast.
DeGennaro CM et al. Mol Cell Biol 2013 Dec;33(24):4779-92
PMID:25720772 - Quantitative phosphoproteomics reveals pathways for coordination of cell growth and division by the conserved fission yeast kinase pom1.
Kettenbach AN et al. Mol Cell Proteomics 2015 May;14(5):1275-87
PMID:23950735 - Global analysis of fission yeast mating genes reveals new autophagy factors.
Sun LL et al. PLoS Genet 2013;9(8):e1003715
PMID:39705284 - Proteomic and phosphoproteomic analyses reveal that TORC1 is reactivated by pheromone signaling during sexual reproduction in fission yeast.
Bérard M et al. PLoS Biol 2024 Dec 20;22(12):e3002963
PMID:21511999 - Comparative functional genomics of the fission yeasts.
Rhind N et al. Science 2011 May 20;332(6032):930-6
PMID:33260998 - High-Throughput Flow Cytometry Combined with Genetic Analysis Brings New Insights into the Understanding of Chromatin Regulation of Cellular Quiescence.
Zahedi Y et al. Int J Mol Sci 2020 Nov 27;21(23)
GO_REF:0000024 - Manual transfer of experimentally-verified manual GO annotation data to orthologs by curator judgment of sequence similarity.
PMID:23101633 - Quantitative analysis of fission yeast transcriptomes and proteomes in proliferating and quiescent cells.
Marguerat S et al. Cell 2012 Oct 26;151(3):671-83
PMID:26518661 - The Paf1 complex factors Leo1 and Paf1 promote local histone turnover to modulate chromatin states in fission yeast.
Sadeghi L et al. EMBO Rep 2015 Dec;16(12):1673-87
PMID:28366642 - Spt5 Plays Vital Roles in the Control of Sense and Antisense Transcription Elongation.
Shetty A et al. Mol Cell 2017 Apr 06;66(1):77-88.e5
PMID:29996109 - Quantitative Phosphoproteomics Reveals the Signaling Dynamics of Cell-Cycle Kinases in the Fission Yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Swaffer MP et al. Cell Rep 2018 Jul 10;24(2):503-514
PMID:31315658 - Leo1 is essential for the dynamic regulation of heterochromatin and gene expression during cellular quiescence.
Oya E et al. Epigenetics Chromatin 2019 Jul 17;12(1):45
PMID:21712547 - Mitotic substrates of the kinase aurora with roles in chromatin regulation identified through quantitative phosphoproteomics of fission yeast.
Koch A et al. Sci Signal 2011 Jun 28;4(179):rs6
PMID:33823663 - A TOR (target of rapamycin) and nutritional phosphoproteome of fission yeast reveals novel targets in networks conserved in humans.
Halova L et al. Open Biol 2021 Apr;11(4):200405
PMID:27298342 - Identification of S-phase DNA damage-response targets in fission yeast reveals conservation of damage-response networks.
Willis NA et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016 Jun 28;113(26):E3676-85
PMID:35157728 - TOR complex 2 contributes to regulation of gene expression via inhibiting Gcn5 recruitment to subtelomeric and DNA replication stress genes.
Cohen A et al. PLoS Genet 2022 Feb;18(2):e1010061
PMID:34250083 - Barcode sequencing and a high-throughput assay for chronological lifespan uncover ageing-associated genes in fission yeast.
Romila CA et al. Microb Cell 2021 Jul 05;8(7):146-160
PMID:38971312 - TORC2 is required for accumulation of γH2A in response to DNA damage.
Cohen A et al. J Biol Chem 2024 Jul 04;:107531
PMID:29632066 - TOR complex 2 in fission yeast is required for chromatin-mediated gene silencing and assembly of heterochromatic domains at subtelomeres.
Cohen A et al. J Biol Chem 2018 May 25;293(21):8138-8150
PMID:25972440 - Global regulation of heterochromatin spreading by Leo1.
Verrier L et al. Open Biol 2015 May;5(5)
PMID:34731638 - The histone chaperone FACT facilitates heterochromatin spreading by regulating histone turnover and H3K9 methylation states.
Murawska M et al. Cell Rep 2021 Nov 02;37(5):109944
PMID:24763107 - Absolute proteome and phosphoproteome dynamics during the cell cycle of Schizosaccharomyces pombe (Fission Yeast).
Carpy A et al. Mol Cell Proteomics 2014 Aug;13(8):1925-36
PMID:28281664 - Genetic interactions and functional analyses of the fission yeast gsk3 and amk2 single and double mutants defective in TORC1-dependent processes.
Rallis C et al. Sci Rep 2017 Mar 10;7:44257
PMID:37615341 - Schizosaccharomyces pombe Rtf2 is important for replication fork barrier activity of RTS1 via splicing of Rtf1 .
Budden AM et al. Elife 2023 Aug 24;12
PMID:25651869 - Chemical genomics approach to identify genes associated with sensitivity to rapamycin in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Doi A et al. Genes Cells 2015 Apr;20(4):292-309
PMID:25076038 - Large scale screening of genetic interaction with sgf73(+) in fission yeast.
Guo Y et al. Yi Chuan 2014 Jul;36(7):723-31
PMID:26567340 - Genome-wide Screening of Regulators of Catalase Expression: ROLE OF A TRANSCRIPTION COMPLEX AND HISTONE AND tRNA MODIFICATION COMPLEXES ON ADAPTATION TO STRESS.
García P et al. J Biol Chem 2016 Jan 08;291(2):790-9
PMID:28218250 - Chromatin remodeller Fun30 Fft3 induces nucleosome disassembly to facilitate RNA polymerase II elongation.
Lee J et al. Nat Commun 2017 Feb 20;8:14527
PMID:28648780 - The Histone Acetyltransferase Mst2 Protects Active Chromatin from Epigenetic Silencing by Acetylating the Ubiquitin Ligase Brl1.
Flury V et al. Mol Cell 2017 Jul 20;67(2):294-307.e9
PMID:39367033 - Quantitative proteomics and phosphoproteomics profiling of meiotic divisions in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Sivakova B et al. Sci Rep 2024 Oct 04;14(1):23105
GO_REF:0000033 - Annotation inferences using phylogenetic trees
PMID:23697806 - A genome-wide resource of cell cycle and cell shape genes of fission yeast.
Hayles J et al. Open Biol 2013 May 22;3(5):130053
PMID:30355493 - Expanded Interactome of the Intrinsically Disordered Protein Dss1.
Schenstrøm SM et al. Cell Rep 2018 Oct 23;25(4):862-870
PMID:30726745 - Fission Yeast NDR/LATS Kinase Orb6 Regulates Exocytosis via Phosphorylation of the Exocyst Complex.
Tay YD et al. Cell Rep 2019 Feb 05;26(6):1654-1667.e7
PMID:18257517 - Phosphoproteome analysis of fission yeast.
Wilson-Grady JT et al. J Proteome Res 2008 Mar;7(3):1088-97
PMID:16823372 - ORFeome cloning and global analysis of protein localization in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Matsuyama A et al. Nat Biotechnol 2006 Jul;24(7):841-7
PMID:35908934 - Euchromatin factors HULC and Set1C affect heterochromatin organization and mating-type switching in fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Esquivel-Chávez A et al. Genes Genet Syst 2022 Oct 18;97(3):123-138
PMID:37787768 - Broad functional profiling of fission yeast proteins using phenomics and machine learning.
Rodríguez-López M et al. Elife 2023 Oct 03;12
PMID:32366382 - Spt5 Phosphorylation and the Rtf1 Plus3 Domain Promote Rtf1 Function through Distinct Mechanisms.
Chen JJ et al. Mol Cell Biol 2020 Jul 14;40(15)