Irwin Rose, Avram Hershko, Aaron Ciechanover (from left to right) share this year's prize for piecing
together ubiquitin's role in protein recycling inside cells.
Not exact matches
They and others subsequently showed that
ubiquitin then delivers the doomed proteins to the proteasome, a large complex that breaks down the chemical bonds holding proteins
together and releases the amino acid building blocks for reuse.
Adding a tag called
ubiquitin to the alpha synuclein prevents it sticking
together into clumps (huntingtin does this too).