CaaX converting enzymes

Current Opinion in Lipidology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 99-102

  Ashby, Matthew N ^a  

^a Acacia Biosciences Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE;

CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ESTERIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SHORT SURVEY; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; ENDOPEPTIDASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHEROMONES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 0031945668     PISSN: 09579672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00041433-199804000-00004     Document Type: Short Survey

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