The mechanism of ubiquitination in the cullin-RING E3 ligase machinery: conformational control of substrate orientation.

In cullin-RING E3 ubiquitin ligases, substrate binding proteins, such as VHL-box, SOCS-box or the F-box proteins, recruit substrates for ubiquitination, accurately positioning and orienting the substrates for ubiquitin transfer. Yet, how the E3 machinery precisely positions the substrate is unknown....

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Main Authors: Jin Liu, Ruth Nussinov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-10-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000527&type=printable
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