Glucose limitation induces GCN4 translation by activation of Gcn2 protein kinase

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2706-2717

  Yang, Ruojing ^a   Wek, Sheree A ^a   Wek, Ronald C ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CARBOHYDRATE; GLUCOSE; GLYCOGEN; HISTIDINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; INITIATION FACTOR 2; PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GLYCOGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STARVATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; YEAST;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GLUCOSE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0034028905     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.20.8.2706-2717.2000     Document Type: Article

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