Abstract
We show here that yeast mutants lacking calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II fail to fully acquire induced thermotolerance. A similar result was also obtained with mutants depending solely on either the N-terminal half or the C-terminal half of calmodulin. These findings indicate that both calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II and calmodulin are required for induced thermotolerance.
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Iida, H., Ohya, Y. & Anraku, Y. Calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II and calmodulin are required for induced thermotolerance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae . Curr Genet 27, 190–193 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00313434
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