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Proteolytic cleavage of the THR subunit during anaphase limits Drosophila separase function.
Genes & development - 15 Sept 2002
Herzig Alf, Lehner Christian F, Heidmann Stefan
Abstract excerpt
Sister-chromatid separation in mitosis requires proteolytic cleavage of a cohesin subunit. Separase, the corresponding protease, is activated at the metaphase-to-anaphase transition. Activation involves proteolysis of an inhibitory subunit, securin, following ubiquitination mediated by the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome. In Drosophila, the securin PIM associates not only with separase (SSE), but also with...
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