The prepropeptide of vacuolar aminopeptidase I is necessary and sufficient to target the fluorescent reporter protein GFP to the vacuole of yeast by the Cvt pathway

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 52-62

  Martinez, Eduardo ^a,b   Seguí Real, Bartolomé ^a   Silles, Eduardo ^a   Mazón, Maria J ^a   Sandoval, Ignacio V ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Depto Desarrollo de Formulaciones   (Cuba)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOPEPTIDASE I; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEASOME; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TARGETING; REPORTER GENE; YEAST CELL;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINOPEPTIDASES; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME PRECURSORS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; VACUOLES;

EID: 0344915172     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01446.x     Document Type: Article

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