Publication Date:
1994-12-09
Description:
A posttranslational modification was detected in the carboxyl-terminal region of axonemal tubulin from Paramecium. Tubulin carboxyl-terminal peptides were isolated and analyzed by Edman degradation sequencing, mass spectrometry, and amino acid analysis. All of the peptides, derived from both alpha and beta tubulin subunits, were modified by polyglycylation, containing up to 34 glycyl units covalently bound to the gamma carboxyl group of glutamyl residues. This modification, present in one of the most stable microtubular systems, may influence microtubule stability or axoneme function, or both.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Redeker, V -- Levilliers, N -- Schmitter, J M -- Le Caer, J P -- Rossier, J -- Adoutte, A -- Bre, M H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Dec 9;266(5191):1688-91.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institut Alfred Fessard, CNRS Unite Propre de Recherche 2212, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7992051" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Animals
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Cilia/chemistry/*metabolism/ultrastructure
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Glutamic Acid/metabolism
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Glycine/analysis/*metabolism
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Mass Spectrometry
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Microtubules/chemistry/*metabolism/ultrastructure
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Paramecium/*metabolism/ultrastructure
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Peptides/analysis/*metabolism
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*Protein Processing, Post-Translational
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Tubulin/analysis/chemistry/*metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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