Post-translational modifications of tubulin: Pathways to functional diversity of microtubules

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 125-136

  Song, Yuyu ^a   Brady, Scott T ^b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylation; Detyrosination; Microtubule; Polyamination; Polyglutamylation; Tubulin

Indexed keywords

TUBULIN;

ACETYLATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; DEACETYLATION; DETYROSINATION; GLYCATION; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMAN; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PALMITOYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SUMOYLATION; TYROSINATION; UBIQUITINATION; ANIMAL; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICROTUBULES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; TUBULIN;

EID: 84923222368     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: 18793088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2014.10.004     Document Type: Review

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