Tags: Enzyme.

Ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes also known as E2 enzymes and more rarely as ubiquitin-carrier enzymes perform the second step in the ubiquitination reaction that targets a protein for degradation via the proteasome.The ubiquitination process covalently attaches ubiquitin a short protein of 76 amino acids to a lysine residue on the target protein.

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