The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004

The most common reason for miscarriage is an error when the mother's and the father's chromosomes are to be separated in the formation of sex cells. Ubiquitin-marking plays an important role here. The picture shows a calf embryo.

How are sex cells formed?

The formation of sex cells, meiosis, like normal cell separation, mitosis, has many points of contact with the subject of this year's Nobel Prize. A certain E3 enzyme is responsible, among other things, for separating the chromosomes.

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	Contents: \| Introduction - Proteins that are marked for hacking into small pieces \| The cell - a teeming mini-workshop \| Ubiquitin \| Proteins are life's building-blocks \| What proteins are marked? \| Prevents self-polination \| How are sex cells formed? \| Further reading \| Credits \|
	Web Adapted Version of the Nobel Poster from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences