The natural history of ubiquitin and ubiquitin-related domains

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1433-1460

  Maxwell Burroughs, Alexander ^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; Non ribosomal peptide ligases; Prokaryotic ubiquitin conjugation; Review; RNA modification; Sumo; Ubiquitin

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

UBIQUITIN;

CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; METABOLISM; REVIEW;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; UBIQUITIN;

EID: 84859229690     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/3996     Document Type: Review

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