Scientists show structure of enzyme involved in protein degradation

An international team of scientists including Zuzana Hodakova and David Haselbach at the IMP used cryo-electron microscopy to analyse the structure of the enzyme UBR5. Difficult to work on due to its size, UBR5 is important due to its role in marking proteins for degradation. The findings were now published in EMBO Journal.

A ring-shaped molecular structure with domains in grey, red, light blue, dark blue and yellow, on a white background.
The enormous enzyme UBR5 plays an important role in marking proteins for degradation.

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