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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2010

AMPylation: Something Old is New Again.

Andrew R Woolery, Phi Luong, Christopher A Broberg, Kim Orth

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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45citing papers in PubMed
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 71 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. Unrestrained AMPylation targets cytosolic chaperones and activates the heat shock response.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
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  18. Fic Proteins ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrew R WooleryDepartment of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX, USA.
Phi Luong
Christopher A Broberg
Kim Orth
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The post-translational modification AMPylation is emerging as a significant regulatory mechanism in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic biology. This process involves the covalent addition of an adenosine monophosphate to a protein resulting in a modified protein with altered activity. Proteins capable of catalyzing AMPylation, termed AMPylators, are comparable to kinases in that they both hydrolyze ATP and reversibly transfer a part of this primary metabolite to a hydroxyl side chain of the protein substrate. To date, only four AMPylators have been characterized, though many more potential candidates have been identified through amino acid sequence analysis and preliminary in vitro studies. This modification was first discovered over 40 years ago by Earl Stadtman and colleagues through the modification of glutamine synthetase by adenylyl transferase; however research into this mechanism has only just been reenergized by the studies on bacterial effectors. New AMPylators were revealed due to the discovery that a bacterial effector having a conserved Fic domain transfers an AMP group to protein substrates. Current research focuses on identifying and characterizing various types of AMPylators homologous to Fic domains and adenylyl transferase domains and their respective substrates. While all AMPylators characterized thus far are bacterial proteins, the conservation of the Fic domain in eukaryotic organisms suggests that AMPylation is omnipresent in various forms of life and has significant impact on a wide range of regulatory processes.

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adenylylationadenylyl transferaseAMPylationeffectorFicGTPaseType III secretion system

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PMID21607083
PMCPMC3095399
OpenAlexW2074043944

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