The N-end rule pathway controls the import of peptides through degradation of a transcriptional repressor

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 269-277

  Byrd, Christopher ^a   Turner, Glenn C ^a   Varshavsky, Alexander ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

CUP9; N end rule; Peptide import; Proteolysis; PTR2; UBR1

Indexed keywords

COPPER; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE TARGETING; HOMEOSTASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARRIER PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HYDROLYSIS; LIGASES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PEPTIDES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UBIQUITIN-CONJUGATING ENZYMES;

EID: 0032472322     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.1.269     Document Type: Article

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