Association of GCN1-GCN20 regulatory complex with the N-terminus of eIF2α kinase GCN2 is required for GCN2 activation

EMBO Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1887-1899

  Garcia Barrio, Minerva ^a   Dong, Jinsheng ^a   Ufano, Sandra ^a,b   Hinnebusch, Alan G ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

eIF2 kinase; GCN2; Regulation; Translation; Yeast

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR 2; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA TRANSLATION; YEAST;

ALLELES; AMINO ACIDS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PHENOTYPE; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; YEASTS;

EID: 0034678890     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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