Eap1p, a novel eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E-associated protein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 4604-4613

  Cosentino, Gregory P ^a,b   Schmelzle, Tobias ^c   Haghighat, Ashkan ^a,e   Helliwell, Stephen B ^c,f   Hall, Michael N ^c   Sonenberg, Nahum ^a,d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Boehringer Ingetheim   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR 4E; MESSENGER RNA; RAPAMYCIN;

ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE TARGETING; GROWTH INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIFUNGAL; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4E; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4G; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA CAPS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIROLIMUS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0034044544     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.20.13.4604-4613.2000     Document Type: Article

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