post-translational protein modification

  • 1post-translational modification — The addition of specific chemical residues to a protein after it has been translated. Common residues are phosphate groups (phosphorylation) and sugars (glycosylation) …

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  • 2Protein biosynthesis — (synthesis) is the process in which cells build proteins. The term is sometimes used to refer only to protein translation but more often it refers to a multi step process, beginning with amino acid synthesis and transcription which are then used… …

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  • 3Protein purification — is a series of processes intended to isolate a single type of protein from a complex mixture. Protein purification is vital for the characterisation of the function, structure and interactions of the protein of interest. The starting material is… …

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  • 4Protein tyrosine phosphatase — Protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) are a group of enzymes that remove phosphate groups from phosphorylated tyrosine residues on proteins. Protein tyrosine (pTyr) phosphorylation is a common post translational modification that can create novel… …

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  • 5Protein Analysis Subcellular Localization Prediction — Protein (or in general, proteome) Analysis Subcellular Localization Prediction is a process (usually through the use of web based software) of predicting the location or destination of a protein within the cell using only the protein sequence as… …

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  • 6Protein phosphorylation — is a post translational modification of proteins in which a serine, a threonine or a tyrosine reside is covalently modified by a protein kinase enzyme by the addition of a phosphate group. Regulation of proteins by phosphorylation is one of the… …

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  • 7Protein — Proteins are large organic compounds made of amino acids arranged in a linear chain and joined together by peptide bonds between the carboxyl and amino groups of adjacent amino acid residues. The sequence of amino acids in a protein is defined by …

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  • 8Protein moonlighting — Crystallographic structure of cytochrome P450 from the bacteria S. coelicolor (rainbow colored cartoon, N terminus = blue, C terminus = red) complexed with heme cofactor (magenta spheres) and two molecules of its endogenous substrate epi… …

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  • 9Protein-arginine deiminase — In enzymology, a protein arginine deiminase (EC number|3.5.3.15) is an enzyme that catalyzes a form of post translational modification called arginine de imination or citrullination::protein L arginine + H2O ightleftharpoons protein L citrulline… …

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  • 10Protein targeting — This article deals with protein targeting in eukaryotes except where noted. Protein targeting or protein sorting is the mechanism by which a cell transports proteins to the appropriate positions in the cell or outside of it. Sorting targets can… …

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