monoubiquitination
Noun
Meaning
monoubiquitination (plural monoubiquitinations)
(biochemistry) The addition of a single ubiquitin moiety to a protein substrate
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Like monoubiquitination, lysine 63-linked polyubiquitin chains also has a role in the trafficking some membrane proteins.
The monoubiquitination of a protein can have different effects to the polyubiquitination of the same protein.
The protein modifications can be either a single ubiquitin protein (monoubiquitination) or a chain of ubiquitin (polyubiquitination).