Identification of novel single amino acid changes that result in hyperactivation of the unique GTPase, Rheb, in fission yeast

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1074-1086

  Urano, Jun ^a   Comiso, Melissa J ^a   Guo, Lea ^a   Aspuria, Paul Joseph ^a   Deniskin, Roman ^a   Tabancay Jr , Angel P ^a,b   Kato Stankiewicz, Juran ^a   Tamanoi, Fuyuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ASPARAGINE; CANAVANINE; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; LYSINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN RHB1; RHEB PROTEIN; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEIN; SERINE; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; YEAST;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANAVANINE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CYSTEINE; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 27944452168     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04877.x     Document Type: Article

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