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Nature Cell Biology 1, E97 - E98 (1999)
doi:10.1038/12097
AAA-ATPases at the crossroads of protein life and death
Peter Zwickl1 & Wolfgang Baumeister1
- Peter Zwickl and Wolfgang Baumeister are at the Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Am Klopferspitz 18a, 82152 Martinsried, Germany.
Correspondence to: Wolfgang Baumeister1 e-mail: baumeist@biochem.mpg.de
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The base subcomplex of the yeast 26S proteasome can refold a denatured protein in vitro, a function opposite to its presumed role in protein degradation. Can this paradox be resolved?
