The cullin protein family

Genome Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Sarikas, Antonio ^a   Hartmann, Thomas ^a   Pan, Zhen Qiang ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; CULLIN; CULLIN 1; CULLIN 2; CULLIN 3; CULLIN 4; CULLIN 5; CULLIN 6; CULLIN 7; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; NEDD8 PROTEIN; PROTEIN PARC; RING FINGER PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN CONJUGATING ENZYME; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE E3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTEASOME; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CANCER INHIBITION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL GROWTH; CHORDATA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; UBIQUITINATION;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHORDATA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CULLIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; UBIQUITINATION; YEASTS;

EID: 79955416634     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2011-12-4-220     Document Type: Review

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