Rules governing selective protein carbonylation.

BACKGROUND:Carbonyl derivatives are mainly formed by direct metal-catalysed oxidation (MCO) attacks on the amino-acid side chains of proline, arginine, lysine and threonine residues. For reasons unknown, only some proteins are prone to carbonylation. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS:we used mass spect...

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Main Authors: Etienne Maisonneuve, Adrien Ducret, Pierre Khoueiry, Sabrina Lignon, Sonia Longhi, Emmanuel Talla, Sam Dukan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-10-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2751825?pdf=render