An important role for glutathione and γ-glutamyltranspeptidase in the supply of growth requirements during nitrogen starvation of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1885-1889

  Mehdi, Karim ^a   Penninckx, Michel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Glutathione; Nitrogen starvation; Vacuoles; Yeast; glutamyltranspeptidase

Indexed keywords

BUTHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTATHIONE; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; GLUTATHIONE METABOLISM; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030859939     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-6-1885     Document Type: Article

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