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Signal transduction

An alternative to destruction

The traditional view is that, when a cellular protein becomes linked to a modifying group known as ubiquitin, it's curtains for that protein. But non-destructive functions for ubiquitin are now emerging.

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Figure 1: A non-destructive role for a traditionally destructive agent in signalling.

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Finley, D. An alternative to destruction. Nature 412, 283–285 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35085671

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