Recent progress in predicting posttranslational modification sites in proteins

Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 591-603

  Xu, Yan ^a,b   Chou, Kuo Chen ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^b GORDON LIFE SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Bi Profile; Chou s PseAAC; Hydroxylation; iHyd PseAAC; iMethyl PseAAC; iNitro Tyr; iSNO AAPair; iSNOPseAAC; iUbis Lys; Methylation; Nitrotyrosine; PSNO; PTM; S nitrosylation; Ubiquitination

Indexed keywords

3 NITROTYROSINE; HYDROXYLYSINE; HYDROXYPROLINE; AMINO ACID; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTER PREDICTION; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; HYDROXYLATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MISSENSE MUTATION; NEOPLASM; NITROSYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; UBIQUITINATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; HUMANS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEINS;

EID: 84962586763     PISSN: 15680266     EISSN: 18734294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1568026615666150819110421     Document Type: Review

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