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Detection of Protein Ubiquitination Sites by Peptide Enrichment and Mass Spectrometry
Published on: March 23, 2020
Exploring the Rampant Expansion of Ubiquitin Proteomics
1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Abstract:
The ubiquitin proteasome system can arguably affect all cellular proteins with few exceptions. In addition to regulating many pathways such as cell cycle progression, inflammation, gene expression, DNA repair, and vesicle trafficking-to just name a few-ubiquitination can occur to any nascent or newly translated protein that misfolds. In the past years, substantial progress has been achieved in advancing our global understanding of the ubiquitinome-the ensemble of ubiquitinated proteins within a cell-using mass spectrometry-based proteomics. Notably, over 50,000 conjugation sites have now been reported. In this review, we discuss recent proteomics methods used to expand our knowledge of the ubiquitin proteasome system through the identification of ubiquitination sites, poly-ubiquitin chain types, and E3 ubiquitin ligase substrates.
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