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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Saccharomyces cerevisiae
SUBMITTER: John Zaborske
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-22452 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Zaborske John M JM Wu Xiaochen X Wek Ronald C RC Pan Tao T
BMC biochemistry 20100804
<h4>Background</h4>When eukaryotic cells are deprived of amino acids, uncharged tRNAs accumulate and activate the conserved GCN2 protein kinase. Activated Gcn2p up-regulates the general amino acid control pathway through phosphorylation of the translational initiation factor eIF2. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Gcn2p is the only kinase that phosphorylates eIF2 to regulate translation through this mechanism. We addressed changes in yeast growth and tRNA aminoacylation, or charging, during amino aci ...[more]