Actin; structural protein involved in cell polarization, endocytosis, and other cytoskeletal functions.

Integral plasma membrane protein; required for axial budding in haploid cells; localizes to the incipient bud site and bud neck; glycosylated by Pmt4p; potential Cdc28p substrate.

Actin; structural protein involved in cell polarization, endocytosis, and other cytoskeletal functions.

Bud emergence protein 1; Protein containing SH3-domains; involved in establishing cell polarity and morphogenesis; functions as a scaffold protein for complexes that include Cdc24p, Ste5p, Ste20p, and Rsr1p.

Actin; structural protein involved in cell polarization, endocytosis, and other cytoskeletal functions.

GTPase-activating protein BEM2/IPL2; Rho GTPase activating protein (RhoGAP); involved in the control of cytoskeleton organization and cellular morphogenesis; required for bud emergence; potential GAP for Rho4p.

Actin; structural protein involved in cell polarization, endocytosis, and other cytoskeletal functions.

Protein BNI1; Formin; polarisome component; nucleates the formation of linear actin filaments, involved in cell processes such as budding and mitotic spindle orientation which require the formation of polarized actin cables; recruited to the division site in a Glc7p/Ref2p dependent manner following release of Bnr1p; functionally redundant with BNR1.

Actin; structural protein involved in cell polarization, endocytosis, and other cytoskeletal functions.

Bud site selection protein 5; GTP/GDP exchange factor for Rsr1p (Bud1p); required for both axial and bipolar budding patterns; mutants exhibit random budding in all cell types.

Actin; structural protein involved in cell polarization, endocytosis, and other cytoskeletal functions.

Cell division control protein 12; Component of the septin ring that is required for cytokinesis; septins are GTP-binding proteins that assemble into rod-like hetero-oligomers that can associate with other rods to form filaments; septin rings at the mother-bud neck act as scaffolds for recruiting cell division factors and as barriers to prevent diffusion of specific proteins between mother and daughter cells.

Actin; structural protein involved in cell polarization, endocytosis, and other cytoskeletal functions.

Cell division control protein 15; Protein kinase of the Mitotic Exit Network; localized to the spindle pole bodies at late anaphase; promotes mitotic exit by directly switching on the kinase activity of Dbf2p; required for spindle disassembly after meiosis II; relocalizes to the cytoplasm upon DNA replication stress.

Actin; structural protein involved in cell polarization, endocytosis, and other cytoskeletal functions.

Cell division control protein 24; Guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) for Cdc42p; required for polarity establishment and maintenance, and mutants have morphological defects in bud formation and shmooing; relocalizes from nucleus to cytoplasm upon DNA replication stress; thermosensitivity of the cdc24-4 mutant in the presence of sorbitol is functionally complemented by human CDC42.

Actin; structural protein involved in cell polarization, endocytosis, and other cytoskeletal functions.

Cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) catalytic subunit; master regulator of mitotic and meiotic cell cycles; alternately associates with G1, S, G2/M phase cyclins, which provide substrate specificity; regulates metabolism, basal transcription, chromosome dynamics, growth and morphogenesis; transcript induction in osmostress involves antisense RNA; human homologs CDK1, CDK2, CDK3 can complement yeast conditional cdc28 mutants; human CDK1, CDK2 can complement yeast cdc28 null mutant.

Actin; structural protein involved in cell polarization, endocytosis, and other cytoskeletal functions.

Cell division control protein 42; Small rho-like GTPase; essential for establishment and maintenance of cell polarity; plays a role late in cell fusion via activation of key cell fusion regulator Fus2p; mutants have defects in the organization of actin and septins; human homolog CDC42 can complement yeast cdc42 mutant.

Actin; structural protein involved in cell polarization, endocytosis, and other cytoskeletal functions.

Subunit of the exocyst complex; the exocyst mediates polarized targeting and tethering of post-Golgi secretory vesicles to active sites of exocytosis prior to SNARE-mediated fusion; PtdIns[4,5]P2-binding protein that localizes to exocytic sites in an actin-independent manner, targeting and anchoring the exocyst with Sec3p; involved in exocyst assembly; direct downstream effector of Rho3p and Cdc42p; relocalizes from bud neck to cytoplasm upon DNA replication stress.

Actin; structural protein involved in cell polarization, endocytosis, and other cytoskeletal functions.

Serine/threonine-protein phosphatase PP1-2; Type 1 S/T protein phosphatase (PP1) catalytic subunit; involved in glycogen metabolism, sporulation and mitotic progression; interacts with multiple regulatory subunits; regulates actomyosin ring formation; subunit of CPF; recruited to mating projections by Afr1p interaction; regulates nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of Hxk2p; import into the nucleus is inhibited during spindle assembly checkpoint arrest; involved in dephosphorylating Rps6a/b and Bnr1p.

Actin; structural protein involved in cell polarization, endocytosis, and other cytoskeletal functions.

Stretch-activated cation channel MID1; N-glycosylated integral membrane protein of the ER and plasma membrane; functions as a stretch-activated Ca2+-permeable cation channel required for Ca2+ influx stimulated by pheromone; interacts with Cch1p; forms an oligomer.

Actin; structural protein involved in cell polarization, endocytosis, and other cytoskeletal functions.

GTPase-activating protein for polarity-establishment protein Cdc42p; implicated in control of septin organization, pheromone response, and haploid invasive growth; relocalizes from bud neck to cytoplasm upon DNA replication stress; RGA1 has a paralog, RGA2, that arose from the whole genome duplication.

Actin; structural protein involved in cell polarization, endocytosis, and other cytoskeletal functions.

GTPase-activating protein for polarity-establishment protein Cdc42p; implicated in control of septin organization, pheromone response, and haploid invasive growth; regulated by Pho85p and Cdc28p; RGA2 has a paralog, RGA1, that arose from the whole genome duplication.

Actin; structural protein involved in cell polarization, endocytosis, and other cytoskeletal functions.

GTP-binding protein RHO2; Non-essential small GTPase of the Rho/Rac family of Ras-like proteins; involved in the establishment of cell polarity and in microtubule assembly.

Actin; structural protein involved in cell polarization, endocytosis, and other cytoskeletal functions.

Ras-related protein RSR1; GTP-binding protein of the Ras superfamily; required for bud site selection, morphological changes in response to mating pheromone, and efficient cell fusion; localized to the plasma membrane; significantly similar to mammalian Rap GTPases.

Actin; structural protein involved in cell polarization, endocytosis, and other cytoskeletal functions.

Polyubiquitin; Ubiquitin; becomes conjugated to proteins, marking them for selective degradation via the ubiquitin-26S proteasome system; essential for the cellular stress response; encoded as a polyubiquitin precursor comprised of 5 head-to-tail repeats; protein abundance increases in response to DNA replication stress.

Integral plasma membrane protein; required for axial budding in haploid cells; localizes to the incipient bud site and bud neck; glycosylated by Pmt4p; potential Cdc28p substrate.

Actin; structural protein involved in cell polarization, endocytosis, and other cytoskeletal functions.

Integral plasma membrane protein; required for axial budding in haploid cells; localizes to the incipient bud site and bud neck; glycosylated by Pmt4p; potential Cdc28p substrate.

Bud emergence protein 1; Protein containing SH3-domains; involved in establishing cell polarity and morphogenesis; functions as a scaffold protein for complexes that include Cdc24p, Ste5p, Ste20p, and Rsr1p.