The role of the Atg1/ULK1 complex in autophagy regulation

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 132-139

  Mizushima, Noboru ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 1; AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 11; AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 13; AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 17; AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 20; AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 24; AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 29; AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 31; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 2; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTEIN STK36; PROTEIN VAC8; UNC 51 LIKE KINASE 1; UNC 51 LIKE KINASE 2; UNC 51 LIKE KINASE 3; UNC 51 LIKE KINASE 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; AUTOPHAGY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CYTOSOL; DEGRADATION; EUKARYOTE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; YEAST;

ANIMALS; AUTOPHAGY; NEURONS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 77951221542     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2009.12.004     Document Type: Review

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