| Standard Name | KEX1 |
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| 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 |
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| Note: this feature is encoded on the Crick strand. | |
| 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 |
Mutant phenotypes All KEX1 Phenotype evidence and references
| Classical genetics | |
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| null | |
| Large-scale survey | |
| null |
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interactions All KEX1 Interaction evidence and references
| 132 total interaction(s) for 96 unique genes/features. | |
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Expression Summary
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Protein Information All KEX1 Protein evidence and references
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| Phosphorylation | PhosphoGRID | PhosphoPep Database |
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sequence information
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| Genetic position: -131 cM | |||||||||||||
| Last Update | Coordinates: 2011-02-03 | Sequence: 1996-07-31 | ||||||||||||
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Analyze Sequence
| S288C only | |
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| S288C vs. other strains |
Resources
| External Links | All Associated Seq | E.C. | Entrez Gene | Entrez RefSeq Protein | MIPS | Search all NCBI (Entrez) | UniProtKB |
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| Primary SGDID | S000003171 |
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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) |




