Caenorhabditis elegans has a single pathway to target matrix proteins to peroxisomes

EMBO Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 40-46

  Motley, Alison M ^a   Hettema, Ewald H ^a   Ketting, Rene ^b,c   Plasterk, Ronald ^b,c   Tabak, Henk F ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYLGLYCERONE PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; ALKYLGLYCERONE-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; CELL RECEPTOR; HYBRID PROTEIN; PEROXISOMAL TARGETING SIGNAL 2 RECEPTOR; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PEROXISOME; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REPORTER GENE;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PEROXISOMES; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 0034231261     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/embo-reports/kvd010     Document Type: Article

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