Disparate intracellular processing of human IL-12 preprotein subunits: Atypical processing of the p35 signal peptide

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 839-847

  Murphy, Finbarr J ^a   Hayes, Mark P ^a,b   Burd, Panis R ^a,c  

^a CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b AAI   (United States)

^c MAXYGEN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 12; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TUNICAMYCIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EID: 0034650811     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.164.2.839     Document Type: Article

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