Elongator's toxin-target (TOT) function is nuclear localization sequence dependent and suppressed by post-translational modification

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1297-1307

  Fichtner, Lars ^a   Jablonowski, Daniel ^a   Schierhorn, Angelika ^b   Kitamoto, Hiroko K ^c   Stark, Michael J R ^d   Schaffrath, Raffael ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK RESEARCH UNIT FOR ENZYMOLOGY OF PROTEIN FOLDING   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; KARYOPHERIN; NUCLEOLIN; PROTEIN DPH2P; PROTEIN EFT2P; PROTEIN RPS19AP; PROTEIN RPS7AP; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PROTEIN YIL103WP; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPHTHERIA; GENE DELETION; KLUYVEROMYCES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR IMPORT; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; G1 PHASE; GENE DELETION; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; KARYOPHERINS; KLUYVEROMYCES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MYCOTOXINS; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEOLAR; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

KLUYVEROMYCES; KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0141454918     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03632.x     Document Type: Article

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