Short-lived green fluorescent proteins for quantifying ubiquitin/proteasome-dependent proteolysis in living cells

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 538-543

  Dantuma, Nico P ^a   Lindsten, Kristina ^a   Glas, Rickard ^a   Jellne, Marianne ^a   Masucci, Maria G ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cytotoxicity; Green fluorescent protein (GFP); Roteasome inhibitor; Ubiquitin proteasome pathway

Indexed keywords

CHYMOTRYPSIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEASOME; PROTEASOME INHIBITOR; UBIQUITIN;

ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE FUSION; GENE TARGETING; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REPORTER GENE;

CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LEUPEPTINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SULFONES; TRANSFECTION; UBIQUITINS;

EID: 0034023407     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/75406     Document Type: Article

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