Degradation of the transcription factor Gcn4 requires the kinase Pho85 and the SCF(CDC4) ubiquitin-ligase complex

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 915-927

  Meimoun, Ariella ^a   Holtzman, Tsvi ^a   Weissman, Ziva ^a   McBride, Helen J ^b,d   Stillman, David J ^b   Fink, Gerald R ^c   Kornitzer, Daniel ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UBIQUITIN;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST;

EID: 0034017609     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.11.3.915     Document Type: Article

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