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Signaling degradation

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology volume 11, pages 800–802 (2004)Cite this article

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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Figure 1: Model for protein degradation by energy-dependent proteases, which consist, at a minimum, of an ATP-dependent unfoldase-translocase and a compartmental peptidase.

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