Elucidating TOR signaling and rapamycin action: Lessons from Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 579-591

  Crespo, José L ^a   Hall, Michael N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; PERMEASE; PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN; RAPAMYCIN; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; AUTOPHAGY; BIOGENESIS; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUKARYOTE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRIENT; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ANIMALS; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIFUNGAL; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); RIBOSOMES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIROLIMUS; TACROLIMUS BINDING PROTEIN 1A;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0036899644     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.66.4.579-591.2002     Document Type: Review

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