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Membrane immersion allows rhomboid proteases to achieve specificity by reading transmembrane segment dynamics

Rhomboid proteases reside within cellular membranes, but the advantage of this unusual environment is unclear. We discovered membrane immersion allows substrates to be identified in a fundamentally-different way, based initially upon exposing ‘masked’ conformational dynamics of transmembrane segment...

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Autores principales: Moin, Syed M, Urban, Sinisa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3494066/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23150798
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.00173