Article
Fungal lipopeptide mating pheromones: a model system for the study of protein prenylation.
Microbiological reviews - 1 Sept 1995
Caldwell G A, Naider F, Becker J M
Abstract excerpt
In a variety of fungal species, mating between haploid cells is initiated by the action of peptide pheromones. The identification and characterization of several fungal pheromones has revealed that they have common structural features classifying them as lipopeptides. In the course of biosynthesis, these pheromones undergo a series of posttranslational processing events prior to export. One common modification is...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Fungal Proteins
- Fungi
- Genetic Variation
- Lipoproteins
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Pheromones
- Protein Prenylation
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae