Protein prenylation: Genes, enzymes, targets, and functions

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 26, Issue , 1992, Pages 209-237

  Schafer, William R ^a   Rine, Jasper ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

isoprenoid; palmitoylation; posttranslational modification; prenylation; Ras proteins

Indexed keywords

CELL RECEPTOR; LAMIN; LIPOPEPTIDE; PHEROMONE; PROTEIN; PROTEINASE;

GENE; NONHUMAN; PRENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW;

EID: 0027076554     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ge.26.120192.001233     Document Type: Review

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