E1- and ubiquitin-like proteins provide a direct link between protein conjugation and sulfur transfer in archaea

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4417-4422

  Miranda, Hugo V ^a   Nembhard, Nikita ^a   Su, Dan ^b   Hepowit, Nathaniel ^a   Krause, David J ^a   Pritz, Jonathan R ^a   Phillips, Cortlin ^a   Söll, Dieter ^b   Maupin Furlow, Julie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Posttranslational modification; Proteasomes; tRNA modification

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE REDUCTASE; MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDOPTERIN; PROTEIN SAMP 1; PROTEIN SAMP 2; SULFURTRANSFERASE; TRANSFER RNA; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENES, ARCHAEAL; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLYBDENUM; RNA, TRANSFER; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; SULFUR; TEMPERATURE; UBIQUITIN-ACTIVATING ENZYMES; UBIQUITINATION; UBIQUITINS;

HALOFERAX VOLCANII;

EID: 79952729890     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1018151108     Document Type: Article

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