Temperature-sensitive control of protein activity by conditionally splicing inteins

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 871-876

  Zeidler, Martin P ^a,b   Tan, Change ^a   Bellaiche, Yohanns ^a,c   Cherry, Sara ^a   Häder, Sabine ^b   Gayko, Urte ^a,d   Perrimon, Norbert ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^d AMGEN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENES; YEAST;

ALLELES; INTEINS; UPSTREAM ACTIVATION SEQUENCE (UAS);

PROTEINS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; INTEIN;

ALLELISM; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; INTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROTEIN SPLICING; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VACUOLAR PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MELANOGASTER; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 3042742569     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt979     Document Type: Article

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