Comparative importance in vivo of conserved glutamate residues in the EX7E motif retaining glycosyltransferase Gpi3p, the UDP-GlcNAc-binding subunit of the first enzyme in glycosylphosphatidylinositol assembly

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 270, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 4507-4514

  Kostova, Zlatka ^a   Yan, Benjamin C ^a   Vainauskas, Saulius ^b   Schwartz, Roberta ^b   Menon, Anant K ^b   Orlean, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Endoplasmic reticulum; Glycosylphosphatidylinositol; Glycosyltransferase; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; CYSTEINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE GPI3P; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE;

ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL VIABILITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HAPLOIDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0344011651     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03844.x     Document Type: Article

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