Prediction of disease-related mutations affecting protein localization.
Författare
Summary, in English
Eukaryotic cells contain numerous compartments, which have different protein constituents. Proteins are typically directed to compartments by short peptide sequences that act as targeting signals. Translocation to the proper compartment allows a protein to form the necessary interactions with its partners and take part in biological networks such as signalling and metabolic pathways. If a protein is not transported to the correct intracellular compartment either the reaction performed or information carried by the protein does not reach the proper site, causing either inactivation of central reactions or misregulation of signalling cascades, or the mislocalized active protein has harmful effects by acting in the wrong place.
Publiceringsår
2009
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
BMC Genomics
Volym
10
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
BioMed Central (BMC)
Ämne
- Genetics
Nyckelord
- Computational Biology: methods
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease: genetics
- Intracellular Space: metabolism
- Proteins: genetics
- Proteins: metabolism
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1471-2164