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Proteolysis: Adaptor, adaptor, catch me a catch.

Sarah E Ades
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The ClpXP protease of bacteria can degrade a wide variety of proteins while maintaining remarkable substrate selectivity. New work in Escherichia coli implicates adaptor proteins in enhancing substrate selectivity and regulating the flow of substrates to cellular proteases.

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Sarah E Ades. 2004-11-09. Proteolysis: Adaptor, adaptor, catch me a catch.. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2004.10.015

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