Review: Biosynthesis and function of yeast vacuolar proteases

Yeast

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-16

  Van Den Hazel, H Bart ^a   Kielland Brandt, Morten C ^a   Winther, Jakob R ^a  

^a CARLSBERG LABORATORY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Endocytosis autophagocytosis; Lysosome; Proteolytic activation; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Sorting

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ENZYME PRECURSOR; PROTEINASE;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL VACUOLE; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; LYSOSOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOPEPTIDASES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PRECURSORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; VACUOLES; YEASTS;

EID: 0029692438     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(199601)12:1<1::AID-YEA902>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Review

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