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Quality-control pathway unlocked

A modified ubiquitin protein has been identified by three independent studies as the missing link in a cellular quality-control pathway that is implicated in Parkinson's disease. See Letter p.162

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Figure 1: PINK1 and parkin in mitochondrial quality control.

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Abeliovich, A. Quality-control pathway unlocked. Nature 510, 44–45 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/510044a

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