Urm1 at the crossroad of modifications. 'Protein Modifications: Beyond the usual suspects' review series

EMBO Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1196-1202

  Pedrioli, Patrick G A ^a   Leidel, Sebastian ^a   Hofmann, Kay ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MILTENYI BIOTEC GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; N ETHYLMALEIMIDE; PROTEIN URM1; TRANSFER RNA; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE E3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION; DISULFIDE BOND; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SULFUR; UBIQUITINS;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 57049162958     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2008.209     Document Type: Review

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