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Tryptophan catabolism by cells expressing IDO is something of an enigma and has resulted in speculation as to why the body requires two enzymes with different tissue specificities to degrade the rarest essential amino acid [ 5, 34].
Our previous work has focused on the pathways by which IL-1β induces several members of the family of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), enzymes that are active at neutral pH and that collectively degrade the various components of the extracellular matrix.
Mutations in the E2 enzyme Cdc34 or in any of the SCF Cdc4components (Cdc53/Cul1, Skp1 and Cdc4) arrest cells at the G1/S transition because of a failure to degrade the cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) inhibitor Sic1 [ 3 ] [ 4 ] . In a wild-type situation, G1 cyclin/CDK complexes phosphorylate Sic1 at the end of G1.
These proteins are known to cooperate with SbcD, nuclease of the calcineurin-like phosphoesterase superfamily and to degrade dsDNA in the 3' → 5' direction generating ssDNA [ 35 36 ] . It seems likely that RecT/Redβ proteins, at least in certain cases, function in conjunction with the SbcCD-pathway, by utilizing the single-stranded regions generated by the SbcCD nuclease.
Because the M6P/IGF2R is believed to sequester and degrade IGF-II [ 10 ] , a decrease in M6P/IGF2R could result in decreased degradation and hence increased bioavailability of IGF-II to the IGF-I receptor, which mediates the growth-promoting effect of IGF-II.