Unraveling the biochemistry and provenance of pupylation: a prokaryotic analog of ubiquitination

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Recently <it>Mycobacterium tuberculosis </it>was shown to possess a novel protein modification, in which a small protein Pup is conjugated to the epsilon-amino groups of lysines in target proteins. Analogous to ubiquitin modification in eukaryotes, th...

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Main Authors: Aravind L, Burroughs AM, Iyer Lakshminarayan M
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-11-01
Series:Biology Direct
Online Access:http://www.biology-direct.com/content/3/1/45