Degradation signals in the lysine-asparagine sequence space

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 6017-6026

  Suzuki, Tetsuro ^a,b   Varshavsky, Alexander ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

N degron; N end rule; Proteolysis; Simple sequences; Ubiquitin

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; LYSINE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; N DEGRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; STATISTICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPARAGINE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HEMAGGLUTININS; KINETICS; LIGASES; LYSINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

EID: 0033231281     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.21.6017     Document Type: Article

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