Characterization of a mammalian homolog of the GCN2 eukaryotic initiation factor 2α kinase

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 265, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 754-762

  Berlanga, Juan J ^b   Santoyo, Javier ^b   De Haro, César ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

cDNA cloning; Mouse liver; Protein kinase; Serum starvation; Translation initiation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INITIATION FACTOR 2; PROTEIN KINASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ANALYSIS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0001598487     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00780.x     Document Type: Article

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