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- adjective Of or relating to a substance or process, such as the addition of sugar groups to form a glycoprotein, that occurs or is formed after translation of protein.
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- adjective genetics, biochemistry Of or pertaining to the period after a
protein has beentranslated frommRNA .
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Examples
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This implies that the d-residues are formed from l-amino acids by a posttranslational reaction.
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The fluorescent moiety is an imidazolone ring structure that is formed by the posttranslational cyclization of a tripeptide, ser65-tyr66-gly67.
NIH Public Access - Seeing Circuits Assemble William Harryman 2009
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It involves a bewildering variety of posttranslational modifications of the histones, and a protein machinery of great complexity for applying, recognizing, and removing these modifications.
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Herz, Effects of chronic ethanol treatment on the in vitro biosynthesis of pro-opiomelanocortin and its posttranslational processing of beta-endorphin in the intermediate lobe of the rat pituitary, Journal of Neurochemistry 43 1984: 607-13.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991
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Herz, Effects of chronic ethanol treatment on the in vitro biosynthesis of pro-opiomelanocortin and its posttranslational processing of beta-endorphin in the intermediate lobe of the rat pituitary, Journal of Neurochemistry 43 1984: 607-13.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991
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Frank S (2008) Shaping mitochondria: The complex posttranslational regulation of the mitochondrial fission protein DRP1.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Angela C. Poole et al. 2010
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Obviously, mapping of the nitrated Tyr residue (s) will be necessary to understand the intramolecular interactions resulting from this posttranslational modification.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Alfredo Csibi et al. 2010
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S-nitroso groups are unstable and protein S-nitrosation is therefore a rapidly and spontaneously reversible posttranslational modification.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Alfredo Csibi et al. 2010
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Thus, the two different forms of Drosophila Drp1 may derive from a posttranslational modification, or alternatively an uncharacterized splice variant of the drp1 gene.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Angela C. Poole et al. 2010
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In vertebrates, Drp1 is subjected to multiple posttranslational modifications, including phosphorylation, ubiquitination and sumoylation
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Angela C. Poole et al. 2010
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