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Publication Abstract from PubMed

Autophagy-related protein Atg8 is ubiquitous in all eukaryotes. It is involved in the Atg8-PE ubiquitin-like conjugation system, which is essential for autophagosome formation. The structures of Atg8 from different species are very similar and share a ubiquitin-fold domain at the C-terminus. In the 2.40 A crystal structure of Atg8 from the silkworm Bombyx mori reported here, the ubiquitin fold at the C-terminus is preceded by two additional helices at the N-terminus.

Structure of autophagy-related protein Atg8 from the silkworm Bombyx mori.,Hu C, Zhang X, Teng YB, Hu HX, Li WF Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2010 Jul 1;66(Pt, 7):787-90. Epub 2010 Jun 23. PMID:20606273^[1]

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