Enzymes of cysteine synthesis show extensive and conserved modifications patterns that include Nα-terminal acetylation

Amino Acids

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1077-1086

  Wirtz, Markus ^a   Heeg, Corinna ^a   Samami, Arman Allboje ^a   Ruppert, Thomas ^a   Hell, Rüdiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Co translational modification; Cysteine synthesis; Post translational modification; Sulphur metabolism

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; CYSTEINE SYNTHASE; ISOENZYME; SERINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; SULFUR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ACETYLATION; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME MODIFICATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; IMMUNODETECTION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; PLANT TISSUE CULTURE; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ACETYLATION; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CYSTEINE; CYSTEINE SYNTHASE; CYTOSOL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; ISOENZYMES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MITOCHONDRIA; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT STEMS; PLASTIDS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SERINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; SULFUR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 78649997901     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-010-0694-0     Document Type: Article

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