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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004 Credits Editors: Lars Thelander and Bengt Nordén, Members of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry. Eva Krutmeijer, Malin Lindgren and Anna Lindquist, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Layout and Illustrations: Kjell Lundin Printing: Katarinatryck AB, 2004 © The Royal Swedish Academy of…
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004 Proteins are life’s building-blocks In the tiniest intestinal bacteria, in roses and toadstools, in mice and men – in all living cells – proteins answer for both form and function. Naturally, research into proteins is therefore of the greatest interest, particularly for…
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004 Prevents self-polination Did you know that roses are bisexual? Most plants are like this – they’re hermaphrodites. With such an arrangement, one wonders what prevents plants from fertilising themselves. In fact, ubiquitin-mediated protein breakdown is involved: the plant recognises and rejects its…
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004 Ubiquitin This is what the actual label looks like. It consists of a short polypeptide chain, a small protein that is so common in the cells of different organisms that it was early named ubiquitin, from the Latin ubique, ‘everywhere’. This protein…
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