Protein Deimination in Human Health and Disease

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Nicholas, Anthony P. (Editor), Bhattacharya, Sanjoy K. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Neurosciences.; Proteins.; Biomedicine.; Protein Science.

Deimination is a relatively new post-translational modification of proteins, whose recognition is ever-increasing. First linked to the pathology of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), deimination is a process by which selected positively charged arginine amino acids are converted to neutral citrulline amino...