CAAX Processing and Yeast a-Factor Biogenesis

Enzymes

Volumn 30, Issue , 2011, Pages 13-41

  Barrowman, Jemima ^a   Michaelis, Susan ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CAAX processing; Farnesylation; Posttranslational modifications; Prenylated pheromones; Ras proteins; Yeast a factor

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; METAZOA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 81255205343     PISSN: 18746047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-415922-8.00002-1     Document Type: Chapter

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