Saturation = extent of packing

Fully saturated fatty acids in the extended form pack into nearly crystalline arrays, stabilized by many hydrophobic interactions.

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Cyclins are degraded through the action of two different E3-ligases:

1. SCF (Skp1, Cullin, and F-box proteins) 

2. APC/C or cyclosome

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SCF and APC/C are multisubunit ubiquitin-protein ligases that belong to the RING finger family of ubiquitin-protein ligases.

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Human SCF complexes contain: 

Three core components - Cul1 subunit, RBX1, Skp1 

and a substrate-targeting F-box protein

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RBX1 is a RING finger–containing protein that binds the E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme.

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phosphoserine/threonine-binding F-box protein is Skp2, which uses a series of leucine-rich repeats to bind to target proteins only when they are phosphorylated.

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APC/C consists of 14 core subunits in metazoans and 13 core subunits in yeast.