Primary structure and biochemical characterization of yeast GTPase- activating proteins with substrate preference for the transport GTPase Ypt7p

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 260, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 284-290

  Vollmer, Petra ^a   Will, Elke ^a   Scheglmann, Dietrich ^a   Strom, Molly ^a   Gallwitz, Dieter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

GTPase activating protein; Vesicular protein transport; Yeast; Ypt Rab GTPase

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; PROTEIN YPT7P; RAB PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YARROWIA LIPOLYTICA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RAS GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YARROWIA LIPOLYTICA;

EID: 0033557836     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00192.x     Document Type: Article

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