How Chemical Synthesis of Ubiquitin Conjugates Helps to Understand Ubiquitin Signal Transduction

Bioconjugate Chemistry

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 805-815

  Hameed, Dharjath S ^a   Sapmaz, Aysegul ^a   Ovaa, Huib ^a,b  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEOLYSIS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ASSAY REAGENTS; BIOCHEMICAL PROCESS; CELL-CYCLE CONTROLS; COMPLEX NATURE; DAMAGE REPAIR; DECONJUGATION; DNA DAMAGES; SIGNALLING PATHWAYS; SYNTHESIS PROCEDURE; UBIQUITIN;

SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CYSTEINE; PEPTIDE; REAGENT; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITINATED PROTEIN; MOLECULAR PROBE;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CONJUGATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR PROBE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UBIQUITINATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES, SYNTHETIC; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMANS; MOLECULAR PROBES; PEPTIDES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITINATED PROTEINS;

EID: 85015399071     PISSN: 10431802     EISSN: 15204812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.6b00140     Document Type: Review

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