Proteolysis of Normal and Mutated Steroidogenic Acute Regulatory Proteins in the Mitochondria: The Fate of Unwanted Proteins

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2461-2476

  Granot, Zvi ^a   Geiss Friedlander, Ruth ^a,e   Melamed Book, Naomi ^a   Eimerl, Sarah ^a   Timberg, Rina ^a   Weiss, Aryeh M ^b   Hales, Karen H ^c   Hales, Dale B ^c   Stocco, Douglas M ^d   Orly, Joseph ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZYLOXYCARBONYLLEUCYLLEUCYLLEUCINAL; PROTEASOME INHIBITOR; PROTEINASE; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL PH; CELL STRAIN COS1; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELLS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SHEEP; STEROIDS; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0346219140     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2003-0074     Document Type: Article

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