Design Principles Involving Protein Disorder Facilitate Specific Substrate Selection and Degradation by the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System.
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SUBMITTER: Guharoy M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4807260 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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