Subpellicular and flagellar microtubules of Trypanosoma brucei are extensively glutamylated

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 431-437

  Schneider, André ^a   Plessmann, Uwe ^b   Weber, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acetylation; Carboxypeptidase; Polyglutamylation; Posttranslational modification; Tyrosination

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; BETA TUBULIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; TYROSINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CYTOSKELETON; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; FLAGELLA; GLUTAMIC ACID; MICROTUBULES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TUBULIN;

EID: 0031049174     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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