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Biochemical Investigation Of The Ubiquitin Carboxyl-Terminal Hydrolase Family, Joseph Rashon Chaney
Biochemical Investigation Of The Ubiquitin Carboxyl-Terminal Hydrolase Family, Joseph Rashon Chaney
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The proteasome is the machinery in eukaryotic cells that degrades protein and recycles the amino acids. Protein degradation is a highly regulated process which starts by the attachment of chains of ubiquitin, which serves as a tag that marks a protein for degradation. This function involves the work of several proteins at the proteasome that work either as ubiquitin chaperones, ubiquitin binders or cleave ubiquitin from the protein that is to be degraded. As this is a highly regulated process, various irregularities can have deleterious effects including the onset of disease, including cardiovascular, cancer, and neurological. ^ The focus of …