The tale of tail-anchored proteins: Coming from the cytosol and looking for a membrane

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 161, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1013-1019

  Borgese, Nica ^a,b,d   Colombo, Sara ^a   Pedrazzini, Emanuela ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Endoplasmic reticulum; Membrane traffic; Mitochondrial outer membrane; Protein targeting and translocation; Transmembrane domain

Indexed keywords

C TAIL ANCHORED PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CYTOSOL; HYDROPHOBICITY; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE BINDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHOLIPID BILAYER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SHORT SURVEY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOSOL; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 0038153194     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200303069     Document Type: Short Survey

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