DISCOVERy OF THE ROLE OF UBIQUITIN IN PROTEIN DEGRADATION HISTORICAL FACTS Courtesy of Sam Griffiths-Jones. Used with permission Source: \Peptide models for protein beta-sheets hD thesis, University of Nottingham, 2001 8(1975)Ubiquitin was first isolated by Gideon Goldstein and colleagues from the thymus(reason why it was originally thought to be a thymic hormone)
Images removed due to copyright considerations See Fig. 2 in David J. Katzmann, Greg Odorizzi Scott D. Emr RECEPTOR DOWNREGULATION AND MULTIVESICULAR-BODY SORTING Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 3, 893-905(2002); doi: 10.1038/nrm973 See Fig. 7 in: Katzmann DJ, Stefan CJ, Babst M, Emr SD
How p53 and Rb pathway function may be disrupted in cancer cells Components of the pathway which are found altered in human cancers are shown in red on the diagram above p53 and Rb themselves may be inactivated by gene mutation (loss of both copies or also as in familial retinoblastoma and Li-Fraumeni syndrome where there are inherited mutations in one copy of Rb or p53 gene respectively. Alternatively
