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Denatured proteins are degraded more rapidly than abnormal proteins in cell-free extracts ofSaccharomyces cerevisiae

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Abnormal proteins synthesized in the presence of ethionine were degraded more rapidly than the normal ones in cell-free extracts of ethanol-grown yeast. The denatured proteins, however, were degraded in preference to their native counterparts which were either normal or abnormal.

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  1. Department of Cell Physiology, Institute of Microbiology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 142 20, Prague 4

    A. K. Chopra & J. Chaloupka

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Chopra, A.K., Chaloupka, J. Denatured proteins are degraded more rapidly than abnormal proteins in cell-free extracts ofSaccharomyces cerevisiae . Folia Microbiol 29, 343–345 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02875968

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