KEX1/YGL203C Summary Help

Standard Name KEX1
Systematic Name YGL203C
Feature Type ORF, Verified
Description Cell death protease essential for hypochlorite-induced apoptosis; involved in the processing of killer toxin and alpha factor precursor; cleaves Lys and Arg residues from the C-terminus of peptides and proteins (1, 2, 3)
Name Description Killer EXpression defective
Chromosomal Location
ChrVII:114664 to 112475 | ORF Map | GBrowse
Note: this feature is encoded on the Crick strand.
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Genetic position: -131 cM
Gene Ontology Annotations All KEX1 GO evidence and references
  View Computational GO annotations for KEX1
Molecular Function
Manually curated
Biological Process
Manually curated
Cellular Component
Manually curated
Classical genetics
null
Large-scale survey
null
Resources
132 total interaction(s) for 96 unique genes/features.
Physical Interactions
  • Affinity Capture-MS: 5
  • PCA: 49
  • Two-hybrid: 1

Genetic Interactions
  • Dosage Growth Defect: 1
  • Dosage Lethality: 1
  • Negative Genetic: 59
  • Phenotypic Suppression: 1
  • Positive Genetic: 9
  • Synthetic Growth Defect: 3
  • Synthetic Lethality: 1
  • Synthetic Rescue: 2

Resources
Expression Summary
histogram
Resources
Localization
Phosphorylation PhosphoGRID | PhosphoPep Database
Structure
Homologs
sequence information
ChrVII:114664 to 112475 | ORF Map | GBrowse
Note: this feature is encoded on the Crick strand.
SGD ORF map
Genetic position: -131 cM
Last Update Coordinates: 2011-02-03 | Sequence: 1996-07-31
Subfeature details
Relative
Coordinates
Chromosomal
Coordinates
Most Recent Updates
Coordinates Sequence
CDS 1..2190 114664..112475 2011-02-03 1996-07-31
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Analyze Sequence
S288C only
S288C vs. other species
S288C vs. other strains
Resources
External Links All Associated Seq | E.C. | Entrez Gene | Entrez RefSeq Protein | MIPS | Search all NCBI (Entrez) | UniProtKB
Primary SGDIDS000003171
References cited on this page View Complete Literature Guide for KEX1
1) Cooper A and Bussey H  (1989) Characterization of the yeast KEX1 gene product: a carboxypeptidase involved in processing secreted precursor proteins. Mol Cell Biol 9(6):2706-14
2) Dmochowska A, et al.  (1987) Yeast KEX1 gene encodes a putative protease with a carboxypeptidase B-like function involved in killer toxin and alpha-factor precursor processing. Cell 50(4):573-84
3) Carmona-Gutierrez D, et al.  (2013) The cell death protease Kex1p is essential for hypochlorite-induced apoptosis in yeast. Cell Cycle 12(11)