Ubiquitin
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ubiquitin-231-797199
title:
Ubiquitin
text:
Ubiquitin is a small (8.6 kDa) regulatory protein found in most tissues of eukaryotic organisms, i.e., it is found ubiquitously. It was discovered in 1975 by Gideon Goldstein and further characterized throughout the late 1970s and 1980s. Four genes in the human genome code for ubiquitin: UBB, UBC, UBA52 and RPS27A. The addition of ubiquitin to a substrate protein is called ubiquitylation. Ubiquitylation affects proteins in many ways: it can mark them for degradation via the proteasome, alter the
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Regulatory protein found in most eukaryotic tissues
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquitin
date created:
2001-11-10T09:44:44Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T18:27:40Z
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