What is the field of Aaron Ciechanover's doctoral study?
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Aaron Ciechanover received a doctorate in chemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1978. His research focused on the regulation of the ubiquitin system, a process by which proteins are tagged for degradation. Ciechanover and his colleagues discovered that ubiquitin is attached to proteins by a specific enzyme, E1, and that this process is essential for the cell's ability to remove damaged or unneeded proteins.
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