Letter U

Ubiquitination

The 'kiss of death' process for a protein.

In ubiquitination, a protein is inactivated by attaching ubiquitin to it.

Ubiquitin is a small molecule.

It acts as a tag that signals the protein-transport machinery to ferry the protein to the proteasome for degradation.

For more information, see: Ubiquitin

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