Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Jin Xu
PROVIDER: MODEL2002110001 | biostudies-other |
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): 19536158
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

Nature 20090617 7252
Reversible phosphorylation on serine, threonine and tyrosine is the most widely studied posttranslational modification of proteins. The number of phosphorylated sites on a protein (n) shows a significant increase from prokaryotes, with n </= 7 sites, to eukaryotes, with examples having n >/= 150 sites. Multisite phosphorylation has many roles and site conservation indicates that increasing numbers of sites cannot be due merely to promiscuous phosphorylation. A substrate with n sites has an expon ...[more]