HTRA proteases: Regulated proteolysis in protein quality control

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 152-162

  Clausen, Tim ^a   Kaiser, Markus ^b   Huber, Robert ^b,c,d   Ehrmann, Michael ^b,d  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXY TERMINAL TELOPEPTIDE; CELL PROTEIN; CHAPERONE; HIGH TEMPERATURE REQUIREMENT A PROTEASE; HIGH TEMPERATURE REQUIREMENT A PROTEASE 1; HIGH TEMPERATURE REQUIREMENT A PROTEASE 2; OLIGOMER; PDZ PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; TRYPSIN; TRYPSINOGEN; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOSTERISM; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHLOROPLAST; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PDZ DOMAIN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN QUALITY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; PDZ DOMAINS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT PROTEINS; SERINE PROTEASES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 79951967246     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3065     Document Type: Review

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