Small proteins can no longer be ignored

Annual Review of Biochemistry

Volumn 83, Issue , 2014, Pages 753-777

  Storz, Gisela ^a   Wolf, Yuri I ^b   Ramamurthi, Kumaran S ^c  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

cell division; membrane; protein; signal transduction; sporulation; transport

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN ACRZ; PROTEIN BLR; PROTEIN CMPA; PROTEIN CYDX; PROTEIN FBPB; PROTEIN FBPC; PROTEIN KDPF; PROTEIN MCIZ; PROTEIN MGTR; PROTEIN MNTS; PROTEIN PMRR; PROTEIN SDA; PROTEIN SGRT; PROTEIN SPOVM; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SMALL PROTEIN; SPACER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CODON; PROTEIN KINASE; RNA;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SPORE; BINDING SITE; BIOFILM; CELL DIVISION; CELL ELONGATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CYTOSOL; DNA DAMAGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; LIPID BILAYER; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPOROGENESIS; START CODON; STOP CODON; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; BACTERIOPHAGE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CODON; DROSOPHILA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLISM; RIBOSOME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; CELL DIVISION; CODON; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; RNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84902163304     PISSN: 00664154     EISSN: 15454509     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biochem-070611-102400     Document Type: Review

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