Albert Lasker
Basic Medical Research Award

Ciechanover, A., Hod, Y., and Hershko, A. (1978) A heat-stable polypeptide component of an ATP-dependent proteolytic system from reticulocytes. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 81: 1100–1105.

Hershko, A., Ciechanover, A., Heller, H., Haas, A. L., and Rose, I. A. (1980) Proposed role of ATP in protein breakdown: conjugation of proteins with multiple chains of the polypeptide of ATP-dependent proteolysis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 77: 1783–1786.

Ciechanover, A., Elias, S., Heller, H. and Hershko, A. (1982) Covalent affinity purification of ubiquitin-activating enzyme. J. Biol. Chem. 257: 2537–2542.

Hershko, A., Heller, H., Elias, S. and Ciechanover, A. (1983) Components of ubiquitin-protein ligase system: resolution, affinity purification and role in protein breakdown. J. Biol. Chem. 258: 8206–8214.

Hershko, A., Leshinsky, E., Ganoth, D. and Heller, H. (1984) ATP-dependent degradation of ubiquitin-protein conjugates. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 81: 1619–1623.

Hershko, A., Heller, H., Eytan, E. and Reiss, Y. (1986) The protein substrate binding site of the ubiquitin-protein ligase system. J. Biol. Chem. 261: 11992–11999.

Ganoth, D., Leshinsky, E., Eytan, E., and Hershko, A. (1988) A multicomponent system that degrades proteins conjugated to ubiquitin. Resolution of components and evidence for ATP-dependent complex formation. J. Biol. Chem. 263: 12412–12419.