Protein prenyltransferases: Anchor size, pseudogenes and parasites

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 384, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 977-989

  Maurer Stroh, Sebastian ^a   Washietl, Stefan ^a   Eisenhaber, Frank ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cancer; Farnesylation; Geranylgeranylation; Lipid anchor; Parasite; Posttranslational; Prenylation; Rab; Ras

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DIMETHYLALLYLTRANSFERASE; LIPID; PROTEIN FARNESYLTRANSFERASE INHIBITOR;

APOPTOSIS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BRUGIA MALAYI; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL TRANSPORT; CELL VACUOLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CYTOSKELETON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TARGETING; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EUKARYOTE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENETIC SCREENING; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PALMITOYLATION; PARASITOSIS; PLANT DISEASE; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PRENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; PSEUDOGENE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; DIMETHYLALLYLTRANSTRANSFERASE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HUMANS; PARASITES; PLANTS; PROTEIN ISOPRENYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PSEUDOGENES; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RAS PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ASPERGILLUS; BRUGIA; BRUGIA MALAYI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EUKARYOTA; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PROTOZOA; STRONGYLOIDES; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS;

EID: 0042355181     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2003.110     Document Type: Review

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