Molecular mechanism of autophagy in yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1389, 1999, Pages 1577-1581

  Ohsumi, Yoshinori ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apg12p; Autophagy; Protein conjugation; Protein degradation

Indexed keywords

AUTOPHAGY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ORGANELLE; LYSINE; MICROBIAL FUNCTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033615349     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0501     Document Type: Article

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