Protein Lipidation: Occurrence, Mechanisms, Biological Functions, and Enabling Technologies

• Published in: Chemical reviews Vol. 118; no. 3; pp. 919 - 988
• Main Authors: Jiang, Hong, Zhang, Xiaoyu, Chen, Xiao, Aramsangtienchai, Pornpun, Tong, Zhen, Lin, Hening
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 14.02.2018
• Subjects: Acylation; Alkyl and Aryl Transferases - antagonists & inhibitors; Alkyl and Aryl Transferases - chemistry; Alkyl and Aryl Transferases - metabolism; Animals; Apoptosis; cell membranes; Cysteine; enzymes; Eukaryotes; eukaryotic cells; Glycine; Humans; Kinetics; Lipids; Lysine; Myristic Acids - metabolism; myristoylation; Palmitic Acids - metabolism; palmitoylation; physiological transport; Protein Interaction Maps; Protein Prenylation; protein secretion; Proteins; Proteins - chemistry; Proteins - metabolism; serine; Signal transduction; Substrate Specificity

Protein lipidation, including cysteine prenylation, N-terminal glycine myristoylation, cysteine palmitoylation, and serine and lysine fatty acylation, occurs in many proteins in eukaryotic cells and regulates numerous biological pathways, such as membrane trafficking, protein secretion, signal trans...