Apg7p/Cvt2p: A novel protein-activating enzyme essential for autophagy

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1367-1379

  Tanida, Isei ^a   Mizushima, Noboru ^b   Kiyooka, Miho ^c   Ohsumi, Mariko ^c   Ueno, Takashi ^a   Ohsumi, Yoshinori ^b   Kominami, Eiki ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TEIKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINOPEPTIDASE I; GENE PRODUCT; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CELL VACUOLE; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; YEAST;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032898636     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.10.5.1367     Document Type: Article

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