Genetic evidence for functional specificity of the yeast GCN2 kinase

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 251, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 613-618

  Tavernarakis, Nektarios ^a,b   Thireos, George ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DAI kinase; eIF 2; GCN4; Translational regulation; tRNA

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR 2; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MALNUTRITION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; YEAST;

EID: 0030016386     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02173652     Document Type: Article

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