Stuck in the middle: drugging the ubiquitin system at the e2 step.

Harper, J Wade; King, Randall W · Cell · 2011

review · Level V

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Abstract

The discovery of a small-molecule allosteric inhibitor of the CDC34 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme (E2) by Ceccarelli et al. raises the possibility that it will be generally feasible to selectively inhibit ubiquitin transfer at this central step in the ubiquitin pathway.