Separate roles for N- and C-termini of the STE4 (β) subunit of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae G protein in the mediation of the growth arrest. Lack of growth-arresting activity of mammalian βγ complexes

Yeast

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 41-51

  Coria, Roberto ^b   Ongay Larios, Laura ^b   Birnbaumer, Lutz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

G proteins; Signal transduction; STE18; STE4; Structure function; Yeast

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PHEROMONE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN BETA SUBUNITS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HETEROTRIMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PHEROMONES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030033254     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(199601)12:1<41::AID-YEA883>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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