Stability of the Listeria monocytogenes ActA protein in mammalian cells is regulated by the N-end rule pathway

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 249-257

  Moors, Marlena A ^a,c   Auerbuch, Victoria ^b   Portnoy, Daniel A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLLEUCYL LEUCYL NORLEUCINAL; ACETYLLEUCYL-LEUCYL-NORLEUCINAL; ACTA PROTEIN, LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; LEUPEPTIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; PROTEASOME;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CELL LINE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; GENETICS; HALF LIFE TIME; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; HALF-LIFE; LEUPEPTINS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MUTATION; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX;

EID: 0033224346     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-5822.1999.00020.x     Document Type: Article

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