Application of the protein semisynthesis strategy to the generation of modified chromatin

Annual Review of Biochemistry

Volumn 84, Issue , 2015, Pages 265-290

  Holt, Matthew ^a   Muir, Tom ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Expressed protein ligation; Histone; Posttranslational modification

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DNA; HISTONE; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; HYBRID PROTEIN; LYSINE; PENICILLAMINE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; UBIQUITIN; CHROMATIN; PEPTIDE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DESULFURIZATION; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; MOLECULAR PROBE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MYCOBACTERIUM XENOPEI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SOLID PHASE PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UBIQUITINATION; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

EUKARYOTA;

CHROMATIN; HISTONES; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

EID: 84930726369     PISSN: 00664154     EISSN: 15454509     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biochem-060614-034429     Document Type: Review

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