The protease activity of a calpain-like cysteine protease in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is required for alkaline adaptation and sporulation

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 260, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 559-568

  Futai, E ^a   Maeda, T ^a   Sorimachi, H ^a   Kitamoto, K ^b   Ishiura, S ^a   Suzuki, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alkaline adaptation; Calpain; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Sporulation

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACIDITY; ADAPTATION; ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPOROGENESIS;

ACID-BASE EQUILIBRIUM; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CALPAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 0032902815     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050929     Document Type: Article

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