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Identification of the putrescine recognition site on polyamine transport protein PotE.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 17 Nov 2000
Kashiwagi K, Kuraishi A, Tomitori H, Igarashi A, Nishimura K, Shirahata A, Igarashi K
Abstract excerpt
The PotE protein can catalyze both uptake and excretion of putrescine. The K(m) values of putrescine for uptake and excretion are 1.8 and 73 microm, respectively. Uptake of putrescine is dependent on the membrane potential, whereas excretion involves putrescine-ornithine antiporter activity. Amino acids involved in both activities were identified using mutated PotE proteins. It was found that Cys(62), Trp(201),...
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