Ubiquitin-like protein 5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the UBL5gene.[1]
It has been shown that in C. elegans mitochondria treated to lower expression of certain electron transport chain proteins during the L3/L4 stage, its expression levels is higher leading to increased lifespans.[2]
Ubiquitin-like proteins (UBLs) are thought to be reversible modulators of protein function rather than protein degraders like ubiquitin (MIM 191339).[supplied by OMIM][1]
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Further reading
Friedman JS, Koop BF, Raymond V, Walter MA (2001). "Isolation of a ubiquitin-like (UBL5) gene from a screen identifying highly expressed and conserved iris genes". Genomics. 71 (2): 252–5. doi:10.1006/geno.2000.6439. PMID11161819.
Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T, et al. (2004). "Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs". Nat. Genet. 36 (1): 40–5. doi:10.1038/ng1285. PMID14702039.
Wilkinson CR, Dittmar GA, Ohi MD, et al. (2005). "Ubiquitin-like protein Hub1 is required for pre-mRNA splicing and localization of an essential splicing factor in fission yeast". Curr. Biol. 14 (24): 2283–8. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2004.11.058. PMID15620657.
Rual JF, Venkatesan K, Hao T, et al. (2005). "Towards a proteome-scale map of the human protein-protein interaction network". Nature. 437 (7062): 1173–8. doi:10.1038/nature04209. PMID16189514.