Defects in tRNA processing and nuclear export induce GCN4 translation independently of phosphorylation of the α subunit of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 2505-2516

  Qiu, Hongfang ^a   Hu, Cuihua ^a   Anderson, James ^a   Björk, Glenn R ^b   Sarkar, Srimonti ^c   Hopper, Anita K ^c   Hinnebusch, Alan G ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR 2; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PSEUDOURIDINE; RIBONUCLEASE; SYNTHETASE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RIBOSOME; RNA BINDING; RNA PROCESSING; YEAST CELL;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINOHYDROLASES; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INTRAMOLECULAR TRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PYROPHOSPHATASES; RNA, TRANSFER, MET; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; YEASTS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0034073380     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.20.7.2505-2516.2000     Document Type: Article

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