Abstract
Protein arginylation has been discovered in 1963 as a soluble activity in cell extracts that mediates the addition of amino acids to proteins. This discovery was nearly accidental, but due to the persistence of the research team, it has been followed through and led to the emergence of a new field of research. This chapter describes the original discovery of arginylation and the first methods used to demonstrate the existence of this important biological process.
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Kaji, H., Kaji, A. (2023). Recollection of How We Came Across the Protein Modification with Amino Acids by Aminoacyl tRNA-Protein Transferase. In: Kashina, A.S. (eds) Protein Arginylation. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2620. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2942-0_2
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