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Degradation is very important in maintaining order in the cell--imagine the junk that would build up (like our space junk)
It is a key component of regulation--in some cases, degradation is the only way to stop the activity of a protein
Proteolysis occurs in lysosomes, organelles where non-specific cleavage occurs, or in proteosomes, another type of structure (non organellar) which is sequestered from the cell
