Degradation signal masking by heterodimerization of MATα2 and MATa1 blocks their mutual destruction by the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway

Cell

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 217-227

  Johnson, Phoebe R ^a   Swanson, Robert ^a   Rakhilina, Larissa ^a   Hochstrasser, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEASOME; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UBIQUITIN;

ARTICLE; DIMERIZATION; DIPLOIDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HAPLOIDY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; REPRESSOR GENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032563319     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81421-X     Document Type: Article

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