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Shimura H, Hattori N, Kubo Si, Mizuno Y, Asakawa S, Minoshima S, Shimizu N, Iwai K, Chiba T, Tanaka K, Suzuki T. Familial Parkinson disease gene product, parkin, is a ubiquitin-protein ligase. Nat Genet. 2000 Jul;25(3):302-5. PubMed.
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Yale University School of Medicine
Not enough attention is paid to normal mechanisms of protein turnover as a contributing factor in neurodegenerative diseases. Mutations involving ubiquitin ligases are the first of many proteins that are likely to be invoved in ubiuquitin-mediated degradation of proteins that accumulate in abnormal amounts in the CNS.
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