Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

CRL2ZER1/ZYG11B recognizes small N-terminal residues for degradation

  • Yao Li,
  • Yueling Zhao,
  • Xiaojie Yan,
  • Chen Ye,
  • Sara Weirich,
  • Bing Zhang,
  • Xiaolu Wang,
  • Lili Song,
  • Chenhao Jiang,
  • Albert Jeltsch,
  • Cheng Dong,
  • Wenyi Mi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35169-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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N-degron pathways play an important role in maintaining protein homeostasis. Here, Li et al. demonstrates an additional non-Ac/N-degron pathway, in which N-terminal non-acetylated small residue degrons (Ser, Ala, or Cys) are recognized by CRL2ZER1/ZYG11B and targeted for protein degradation.