Autophagic activity measured in whole rat hepatocytes as the accumulation of a novel BHMT fragment (p10), generated in amphisomes by the asparaginyl proteinase, legumain

Autophagy

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1011-1027

  Øverbye, Anders ^a   Sætre, Frank ^a   Hagen, Linda Korseberg ^a   Johansen, Harald Thidemann ^b   Seglen, Per O ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

AJN 230; Ammonia; Amphisome; Autophagy; Betaine:homocysteine methyltransferase; Hepatocyte; Legumain; Leupeptin; Liver; Lysosome; Proteinase; Proteolytic processing; Proteomics; Rat

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; BETAINE HOMOCYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LEGUMAIN; LEUPEPTIN; PROTEIN P10; PROTEIN P42;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; LIVER CELL; LYSOSOME; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RAT;

RATTUS;

EID: 80052391876     PISSN: 15548627     EISSN: 15548635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/auto.7.9.16436     Document Type: Article

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