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Cell Biology International (2011) 35, 453–455 (Printed in Great Britain)

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Editorial

Protein balance: a fundamental question of cell biology needing reappraisal

Denys N Wheatley¹

Editor-in-Chief

Although protein synthesis and protein degradation are two independent processes that are firmly regulated, how they maintain a balance of protein in the non-growing cell remains to be established. In work in the 1980s, the author suggested a self-regulating mechanism. However, experimental work on this interesting and fundamental problem is needed for a better understanding of ‘protein balance’ in cells.

Key words: protein balance, protein degradation, protein protein synthesis, self-reguating mechanism.

¹email wheatley@abdn.ac.uk.

Received 27 January 2011; accepted 1 February 2011

Published online 30 March 2011, doi:10.1042/CBI20110067

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