Protein-devouring enzyme complex uses two different mechanisms to determine which targets to destroy

Thursday, April 28, 2011 - 10:31 in Biology & Nature

The proteasome is the garbage-disposal system of the cell, enzymatically clearing away unwanted proteins. Since this requires the recognition of individual targets within the crowded cellular environment, it is critically important that molecules ‘marked for death’ are appropriately flagged.

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