PRT6/At5g02310 encodes an Arabidopsis ubiquitin ligase of the N-end rule pathway with arginine specificity and is not the CER3 locus

FEBS Letters

Volumn 581, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 3189-3196

  Garzón, Marcus ^a   Eifler, Karolin ^a   Faust, Andrea ^a   Scheel, Hartmut ^b   Hofmann, Kay ^b   Koncz, Csaba ^a   Yephremov, Alexander ^a   Bachmair, Andreas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MILTENYI BIOTEC GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; CER3; N end rule; Ubiquitin; Wax biosynthesis

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; PROTEASOME; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; WAX;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CER3 GENE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PRT6 GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; ARGININE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

ARABIDOPSIS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 34250890107     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.06.005     Document Type: Article

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