Protein phosphatase 2B (PP2B, Calcineurin) in Paramecium: Partial characterization reveals that two members of the unusually large catalytic subunit family have distinct roles in calcium-dependent processes

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1049-1063

  Fraga, D ^a   Sehring, I M ^b   Kissmehl, R ^b   Reiss, M ^b   Gaines, R ^a   Hinrichsen, R ^c   Plattner, H ^b  

^a 931 College Mall   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYMOLOGY; EXOCYTOSIS; GENE; GENE CONVERSION; GENETICS; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; DRUG EFFECTS;

CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; EXOCYTOSIS; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; INTRONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PHYLOGENY; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOLUTIONS;

CANA; PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 77956837629     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00322-09     Document Type: Article

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