Processing of artificial peptide-DNA-conjugates by the mitochondrial intermediate peptidase (MIP)

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 380, Issue 7-8, 1999, Pages 961-967

  Seibel, Martina ^a   Bachmann, Corinna ^a   Schmiedel, Janet ^a   Wilken, Norbert ^a   Wilde, Frank ^a   Reichmann, Heinz ^a   Isaya, Grazia ^b   Seibel, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene therapy; Mitochondria; Mitochondrial processing peptidase; Ornithine transcarbamylase; Site directed mutagenesis; Transformation vector

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PEPTIDASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; EXPRESSION VECTOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RAT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DNA; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RATS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0032878613     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.1999.119     Document Type: Article

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