The branch point enzyme of the mevalonate pathway for protein prenylation is overexpressed in the ob/ob mouse and induced by adipogenesis

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2158-2166

  Vicent, David ^a   Maratos Flier, Eleftheria ^a   Kahn, C Ronald ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FARNESYL TRANS TRANSFERASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; INSULIN; ISOPRENOID; MEVALONIC ACID; RAS PROTEIN;

ADIPOCYTE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FRACTIONATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIPOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADIPOCYTES; ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FARNESYLTRANSTRANSFERASE; MICE; MICE, OBESE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OBESITY; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN ISOPRENYLATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033998587     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.20.6.2158-2166.2000     Document Type: Article

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