Synthetic and semi-synthetic strategies to study ubiquitin signaling

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 38, Issue , 2016, Pages 92-101

  van Tilburg, Gabriëlle B A ^a,b   Elhebieshy, Angela F ^a,b   Ovaa, Huib ^a,b  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UBIQUITIN;

CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; CONJUGATION; MECHANICAL PROBE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NATIVE CHEMICAL LIGATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ACETYLATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SEMI SYNTHETIC METHOD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLID PHASE PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC METHOD; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROCEDURES; SYNTHESIS;

CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES, SYNTHETIC; HUMANS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UBIQUITIN;

EID: 84973890987     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2016.05.022     Document Type: Review

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