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Nature Cell Biology 8, 787 - 788 (2006)
doi:10.1038/ncb0806-787

EGFR trafficking: parkin' in a jam

Koraljka Husnjak1 & Ivan Dikic1

  1. Koraljka Husnjak and Ivan Kikic are in the Institute for Biochemistry II, Goethe University Medical School, Frankfurt 60590, Germany. e-mail: ivan.dikic@biochem2.de


Ubiquitin, best known as a degradation signal, is also a protein-sorting tag on endocytic cargoes and a regulatory switch on endocytic adaptor proteins. Parkin, a ubiquitin ligase whose mutations are associated with Parkinson's disease, has now been shown to control EGF-receptor internalization and Akt signalling by ubiquitination of the endocytic scaffold protein Eps15.

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