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Resonating to the music of ubiquitination

Beyond protein destruction: a new real-time assay to measure dynamic changes in ubiquitination promises to highlight the many other roles of this critical protein modification.

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Figure 1: Many consequences of protein ubiquitination.
Figure 2: Roles of ubiquitination in 7TM receptor trafficking and signaling.

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Shenoy, S., Lefkowitz, R. Resonating to the music of ubiquitination. Nat Methods 1, 191–193 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth1204-191

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