Translational regulation of GCN4 and the general amino acid control of yeast

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue , 2005, Pages 407-450

  Hinnebusch, Alan G ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

eIF2; eIF2B; Gcn2; Initiation factors; Protein synthesis

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; INITIATION FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TRANS ACTING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GCN4;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

AMINO ACIDS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 27144510561     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.59.031805.133833     Document Type: Review

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