Structure and evolution of ubiquitin and ubiquitin-related domains

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 832, Issue , 2012, Pages 15-63

  Burroughs, A Maxwell ^a   Iyer, Lakshminarayan M ^b   Aravind, L ^b  

^a RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta grasp fold; Nonribosomal peptide ligases; Prokaryotic ubiquitin conjugation; RNA modification; SUMO; Ubiquitin

Indexed keywords

PROTEASOME; SUMO PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EVOLUTION; METABOLISM; NONRIBOSOMAL PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PROKARYOTIC CELL; RNA PROCESSING;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; PEPTIDE BIOSYNTHESIS, NUCLEIC ACID-INDEPENDENT; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SMALL UBIQUITIN-RELATED MODIFIER PROTEINS; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; UBIQUITINS;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84858259538     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-474-2_2     Document Type: Article

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