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Pruning and loss of excitatory synapses by the parkin ubiquitin ligase.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 9 Dec 2008
Helton Thomas D, Otsuka Takeshi, Lee Ming-Chia, Mu Yuanyue, Ehlers Michael D
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in the PARK2 gene cause hereditary Parkinson disease (PD). The PARK2 gene product, termed parkin, is an E3 ubiquitin ligase that mediates the transfer of ubiquitin onto diverse substrate proteins. Despite progress in defining the molecular properties and substrates of parkin, little is...
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