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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pharmacol Ther. 2015 Apr 4;151:141–151. doi: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2015.04.002

Table 1. The different types degrons that are recognized by Cdh1 and Cdc20.

APCCdh1 APCCdc20

Degron Consensus Representative Substrates References Degron Consensus Representative Substrates References
D-box RxxLx(2-5)N/D/E Cyclin A2, Plk1, Skp2, Geminin, Cdc6 (Bashir et al., 2004; den Elzen & Pines, 2001; Geley et al., 2001; Lindon & Pines, 2004; McGarry & Kirschner, 1998; Petersen et al., 2000; Wei et al., 2004) D-box RxxLx(2-5)N/D/E Cyclin B1, Securin, etc. (Clute & Pines, 1999; Michaelis et al., 1997; Nasmyth, 2001)
KEN box KENxxD/Q/E/N Geminin, Cdc6 (McGarry & Kirschner, 1998; Petersen et al., 2000) TEK TEK Securin (Jin et al., 2008)
A box QRVL Aurora A, Aurora B (Littlepage & Ruderman, 2002) ABBA Motif KxxFxxYxDxxE Cyclin A1, Cyclin A2 (Di Fiore et al., 2015)
O box paspLtekNak ORC1 (Araki et al., 2003) LXPKXLF Motif LXPKXLF PHF8 (Lim et al., 2013)
GxEN GxEN X-kid (Castro et al., 2003) LR Motif LR Kif18A (Sedgwick et al., 2013)
LLK LLK Claspin (Gao et al., 2009) MR Motif MR Nek2A (Sedgwick et al., 2013)
CRY CRY Cdc20 (Reis et al., 2006)