How and why does the proteome respond to microgravity?

Expert Review of Proteomics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-27

  Grimm, Daniela ^a   Wise, Petra ^b   Lebert, Michael ^c   Richter, Peter ^c   Baatout, Sarah ^d,e  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

apoptosis; Arabidopsis thaliana; bacteria; cytoskeleton; growth; human cells; microgravity; proteomics; tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

ATP SYNTHASE SUBUNIT BETA; BETA TUBULIN; ELONGATION FACTOR; ELONGATION FACTOR 1DELTA; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR 4A I; F ACTIN; HEAT SHOCK COGNATE PROTEIN 71; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR; LIPOCORTIN 5; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEOME; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE (UBIQUINONE); RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SERINE THREONINE PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE PP1 BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIMENTIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL TYPE; CUPRIAVIDUS; CUPRIAVIDUS METALLIDURAN; CYTOSKELETON; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; HYPOTHALAMUS; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROGRAVITY; NONHUMAN; OSTEOBLAST; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPACE FLIGHT; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYROID CELL;

ANIMALS; ASTRONAUTS; BACTERIA; CELL LINE; CYTOSKELETON; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PLANTS; PROTEOME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPACE SIMULATION; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79951883329     PISSN: 14789450     EISSN: 17448387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/epr.10.105     Document Type: Article

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