SUMO Regulation of Cellular Processes

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wilson, Van G. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Proteins.; Posttranslational modification.; Cell biology.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Protein Science.; Cell Biology.; Posttranslational Modification.

Over a decade ago, a small cellular protein of 12 kDa, with 18% homology to the well-known ubiquitin protein, was co-discovered and termed Small Ubiquitin-like Modifier, or SUMO. Sumoylation is a post-translational modification that utilizes SUMO as the modifier group covalently attached to target s...