• Protein targeting or protein sorting is the biological mechanism by which proteins are transported to their appropriate destinations within or outside...
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  • A proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) is a molecule that can remove specific unwanted proteins. Rather than acting as a conventional enzyme inhibitor...
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    thylakoid proteins encoded by a plant's nuclear genome need two targeting signals for proper localization: An N-terminal chloroplast targeting peptide (shown...
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  • amphipathic helix. Mitochondrial targeting signals can contain additional signals that subsequently target the protein to different regions of the mitochondria...
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  • of signal peptides and target the signal peptide for degradation, which affects virus-cellular fusion. Protein targeting Target peptide Topogenic sequence...
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    mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), also referred to as the mechanistic target of rapamycin, and sometimes called FK506-binding protein 12-rapamycin-associated...
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  • In biochemical protein targeting, a peroxisomal targeting signal (PTS) is a region of the peroxisomal protein that receptors recognize and bind to. It...
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  • Target proteins are functional biomolecules that are addressed and controlled by biologically active compounds. They are used in the processes of transduction...
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    target protein. The E3, which may be a multi-protein complex, is, in general, responsible for targeting ubiquitination to specific substrate proteins...
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  • Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are a family of proteins produced by cells in response to exposure to stressful conditions. They were first described in relation...
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  • resistant proteins. In any of these cases, proteins can potentially be targeted for degradation using the novel drug modality of proteolysis-targeting-chimeras...
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  • Targeting may refer to: Gene targeting Protein targeting Behavioral targeting Targeted advertising Target market Geotargeting, in internet marketing Targeting...
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    molecular chaperones are proteins that assist the conformational folding or unfolding of large proteins or macromolecular protein complexes. There are a...
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    ten global best-selling drugs (Advair Diskus and Abilify) act by targeting G protein-coupled receptors. The exact size of the GPCR superfamily is unknown...
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  • KKXX (amino acid sequence) KDEL (amino acid sequence) Signal peptide Protein targeting Mariano Stornaiuolo; Lavinia V. Lotti; Nica Borgese; Maria-Rosaria...
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    Ubiquitin-like Modifier) proteins are a family of small proteins that are covalently attached to and detached from other proteins in cells to modify their...
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    Hsp70 (redirect from Heat-shock protein 70)
    kilodalton heat shock proteins (Hsp70s or DnaK) are a family of conserved ubiquitously expressed heat shock proteins. Proteins with similar structure...
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  • of protein targeting in cells. Prediction of protein subcellular localization is an important component of bioinformatics based prediction of protein function...
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    Hsp90 (redirect from Heat shock protein 90)
    shock protein 90) is a chaperone protein that assists other proteins to fold properly, stabilizes proteins against heat stress, and aids in protein degradation...
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    Protein folding is the physical process by which a protein, after synthesis by a ribosome as a linear chain of amino acids, changes from an unstable random...
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    new chloroplast host had to develop a unique protein targeting system to avoid having chloroplast proteins being sent to the wrong organelle. In most,...
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  • universally conserved ribonucleoprotein (protein-RNA complex) that recognizes and targets specific proteins to the endoplasmic reticulum in eukaryotes...
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    Palmitic acid is anchored to the membrane bilayer and thus influence protein targeting to membrane microdomains. SCIMP is also palmitoylated and is associated...
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    Proteinprotein interactions (PPIs) are physical contacts of high specificity established between two or more protein molecules as a result of biochemical...
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    sometimes called Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction, is a community-wide, worldwide experiment for protein structure prediction taking place...
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  • internal protein segment is removed from a precursor protein Protein structure, unique three-dimensional shape of amino acid chains Protein targeting, mechanism...
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  • Translocon (redirect from Sec proteins)
    includes clogged protein targeting by the attachment of ubiquitin enzymes for degradation by the proteasome. SecY protein Sec61 Protein targeting Bacterial secretion...
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    unique protein targeting system to avoid having chloroplast proteins being sent to the wrong organelle. Polypeptides, the precursors of proteins, are chains...
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    Pea protein is a food product and protein supplement derived and extracted from yellow and green split peas, Pisum sativum. It can be used as a dietary...
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    of proteins targeted for degradation by the 26S proteasome. F-box domain is a protein structural motif of about 50 amino acids that mediates protein–protein...
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