Sortylation (IMAGE)

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Sortylation

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The researchers equipped a cellular protein (gray) with a modified lysine amino acid building block (pink), to which the bacterial enzyme sortase (yellow) transmits a ubiquitin molecule (blue).

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K. Lang / TUM

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