Extreme sweetness: Protein glycosylation in archaea

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 151-156

  Eichler, Jerry ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCAN; PROTEOME; RNA;

ACETYLATION; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; CAMPYLOBACTER; CELL MEMBRANE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; HELICOBACTER; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METHANOGEN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA SPLICING; THERMOACIDOPHILE;

ARCHAEA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GLYCOSYLATION; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 84874113719     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2957     Document Type: Article

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