The Golgi-resident protease Kex2 acts in conjunction with Prm1 to facilitate cell fusion during yeast mating

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 209-222

  Heiman, Maxwell G ^a,b   Engel, Alex ^a   Walter, Peter ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KEX1 ENZYME; KEX2 ENZYME; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHEROMONE REGULATED MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1; PROTEINASE; STE13 ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME BINDING; GOLGI COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; CARBOXYPEPTIDASES; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; CONGO RED; CYTOPLASMIC VESICLES; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GLUCAN 1,3-BETA-GLUCOSIDASE; GLYCOPROTEINS; GOLGI APPARATUS; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 33846451106     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 00219525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200609182     Document Type: Article

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