Writing and reading the tubulin code

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 290, Issue 28, 2015, Pages 17163-17172

  Yu, Ian ^a   Garnham, Christopher P ^a   Roll Mecak, Antonina ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROLIFERATION;

CELL DIVISIONS; INTRACELLULAR STRUCTURES; MICROTUBULES; NEURONAL PROCESS; POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS; SUBCELLULAR DISTRIBUTION;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

DELTA2 TUBULIN; DIMER; LIGASE; TUBULIN; TUBULIN TYROSINE LIGASE; TUBULIN TYROSINE LIGASE LIKE FAMILY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; PEPTIDE SYNTHASE; TUBULIN POLYGLUTAMYLASE;

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; KINETICS; MICROTUBULE; NITROSYLATION; NONHUMAN; PALMITOYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ACETYLATION; PROTEIN DETYROSINATION; PROTEIN GLUTAMYLATION; PROTEIN GLYCYLATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN POLYAMINATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TYROSINATION; S NITROSYLATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; KINETICS; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; TUBULIN;

EID: 84940063423     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.R115.637447     Document Type: Article

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