The authors are in the Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. bobsauer@mit.edu
Many proteins are marked for destruction by covalent attachment of a polyubiquitin chain that directs binding of the modified molecule to the proteasome. A new report demonstrates that an unstructured region of the substrate must also be recognized to begin proteolytic engagement.
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