Specificity determinants of proteolytic processing of Aspergillus PacC transcription factor are remote from the processing site, and processing occurs in yeast if pH signalling is bypassed

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 1390-1400

  Mingot, José Manuel ^a,b   Tilburn, Joan ^b   Diez, Eliecer ^a   Bignell, Elaine ^b   Orejas, Margarita ^a,c   Widdick, David A ^b,d   Sarkar, Sovan ^b,e   Brown, Christopher V ^b   Caddick, Mark X ^b,f   Espeso, Eduardo A ^a,b   Arst Jr , Herbert N ^b   Peñalva, Miguel A ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO DE AGROQUÍMICA Y TECNOLOGÍA DE ALIMENTOS CSIC   (Spain)

^d NORWICH RESEARCH PARK   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALKALINITY; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA BINDING; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MISSENSE MUTATION; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; YEAST;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032926893     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.19.2.1390     Document Type: Article

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