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- Over 40 color figures
- Contains 19 updated reviews that stimulate further investigations in the proteomic field
- Improves current understanding of protein modifications, allowing new avenues to prevent and/or alleviate human and animal diseases
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Protein Reviews (PRON, volume 13)
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Post-translational modifications serve many different purposes in several cellular processes such as gene expression, protein folding and transport to appropriate cell compartment, protein-lipid and protein-protein interactions, enzyme regulation, signal transduction, cell proliferation and differentiation, protein stability, recycling and degradation. Although several-hundred different modifications are known, the significance of many of them remains unknown. The enormous versatility of the modifications which frequently alter the physico-chemical properties of the respective proteins represents an extraordinary challenge in understanding their physiological role. Since essential cellular functions are regulated by protein modifications, an improvement of current understanding of their meaning might allow new avenues to prevent and/or alleviate human and animal diseases.
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Post-Translational Modifications in Health and Disease
Editors: Cecilio J. Vidal
Series Title: Protein Reviews
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6382-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-6381-9Published: 13 October 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2700-1Published: 01 December 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-6382-6Published: 13 October 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 490
Topics: Biochemistry, general, Animal Biochemistry, Medical Biochemistry, Cell Biology