Controlling transcription by destruction: The regulation of yeast Gcn4p stability

Current Genetics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 8-18

  Irniger, Stefan ^a   Braus, Gerhard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amino acid biosynthesis; Pho85p; Skp1 cullin F box complex; Transcription factor; Ubiquitin mediated proteolysis

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; LIGASE; PROTEIN C JUN; PROTEIN GCN4P; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; BIOACCUMULATION; BUDDING; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; EUKARYOTE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MALNUTRITION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SKP CULLIN F-BOX PROTEIN LIGASES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0142061171     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-003-0422-3     Document Type: Review

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