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Unraveling the biochemistry and provenance of pupylation: a prokaryotic analog of ubiquitination

Lakshminarayan M Iyer1, AM Burroughs2 and L Aravind1*

Author Affiliations

1 National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA

2 Omics Science Center (OSC), RIKEN Yokohama Institute, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama-shi, 230-0045 Kanagawa, Japan

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Biology Direct 2008, 3:45 doi:10.1186/1745-6150-3-45

Published: 3 November 2008

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A complete list of conserved gene neighborhoods and comprehensive alignments of the PafA family, newly identified carboxylate-amine ligase families and PUP are provided. They can be accessed from: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/aravind/PUP/PafA.html webcite.

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