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Is Aaron Ciechanover a recipient of the Nobel Prize?

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Aaron Ciechanover is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004 for his work on the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. The proteasome is a protein complex that degrades other proteins. Ciechanover and his colleagues discovered that ubiquitin is a small protein that is attached to other proteins, marking them for degradation by the proteasome.
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