Transport and signaling via the amino acid binding site of the yeast Gap1 amino acid transceptor

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-52

  Van Zeebroeck, Griet ^a,b   Bonini, Beatriz Monge ^a,b   Versele, Matthias ^a,b   Thevelein, Johan M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; CYSTEINE; PROTEIN GAP1; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; YEAST;

EID: 57749119180     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.132     Document Type: Article

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