Geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase in fission yeast is a heteromer of farnesyl diphosphate synthase (FPS), Fps1, and an FPS-like protein, Spo9, essential for sporulation

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3568-3581

  Ye, Yanfang ^a   Fujii, Makoto ^b   Hirata, Aiko ^c   Kawamukai, Makoto ^b   Shimoda, Chikashi ^a   Nakamura, Taro ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FARNESYL DIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE 1; FARNESYL TRANS TRANSFERASE; GERANYLTRANSFERASE; ISOPRENOID; PROTEIN SPO9; UBIQUINONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FPS1 GENE; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENOME ANALYSIS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; ISPA GENE; LETHALITY; MEMBRANE FORMATION; MEMBRANE VESICLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SPO9 GENE; SPOROGENESIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FARNESYLTRANSTRANSFERASE; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GERANYLTRANSTRANSFERASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SPORES, FUNGAL; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 34548480948     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E07-02-0112     Document Type: Article

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