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Ligases meaning
plural of ligase
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DNA ligase is used in both DNA repair and DNA replication (see Mammalian ligases ).
In the last step, a member of a highly diverse class of enzymes known as ubiquitin ligases (E3) recognizes the specific protein to be ubiquitinated and catalyzes the transfer of ubiquitin from E2 to this target protein.
Of the all known mammalian DNA ligases, only Lig III has been found to be present in mitochondria.
Once a protein is tagged with a single ubiquitin molecule, this is a signal to other ligases to attach additional ubiquitin molecules.
Other common names for ligases include the word "synthetase", because they are used to synthesize new molecules.
These target proteins become substrates for particular E3 ubiquitin ligases only when they are phosphorylated.
They are highly specific, as are the E3 ligases that attach the ubiquitin, with only a few substrates per enzyme.