Peptides accelerate their uptake by activating a ubiquitin-dependent proteolytic pathway

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6786, 2000, Pages 579-583

  Turner, Glenn C ^a   Du, Fangyong ^a   Varshavsky, Alexander ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UBIQUITIN;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARRIER PROTEINS; DIPEPTIDES; FEEDBACK; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LIGASES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PEPTIDES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; UBIQUITINS;

EID: 0034213352     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35014629     Document Type: Article

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