Silk cocoon of Bombyx mori: Proteins and posttranslational modifications - Heavy phosphorylation and evidence for lysine-mediated cross links

Proteomics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 369-379

  Chen, Wei Qiang ^a   Priewalder, Helga ^b   John, Julius Paul Pradeep ^a   Lubec, Gert ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

Author keywords

2 DE; Animal proteomics; Phosphorylation; PTMs; Silk protein

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; INSECT PROTEIN; LITHIUM; LYSINE; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; SERICIN; SILK FIBROIN; THIOCYANATE; TYROSINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COCOON; CROSS LINKING; HEAVY CHAIN; HYDROXYLATION; LIGHT CHAIN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILK; SILKWORM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOLUBILITY; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ANIMALS; BOMBYX; LYSINE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEOME; SILK;

ANIMALIA; BOMBYX MORI;

EID: 76649126399     PISSN: 16159853     EISSN: 16159861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200900624     Document Type: Article

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