Parkin: much more than a simple ubiquitin ligase.

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Parkin is mainly a cytosolic protein involved in a subset of Parkinson's disease (PD) cases referred to as autosomal juvenile recessive forms of PD. Most studies have established as a dogma that parkin function could be resumed as an ubiquitin ligase activity. Accordingly, several cellular functions ascribed to parkin derive from its ability to ubiquitinate a series of proteins, thereby rendering them prone to...

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