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Single nucleotide polymorphism of human platelet-activating factor receptor impairs G-protein activation.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 16 Nov 2001
Fukunaga K, Ishii S, Asano K, Yokomizo T, Shiomi T, Shimizu T, Yamaguchi K
Abstract excerpt
Various proinflammatory and vasoactive actions of platelet-activating factor (PAF) are mediated through a specific G-protein-coupled PAF receptor (PAFR). We identified a novel DNA variant in the human PAFR gene, which substitutes an aspartic acid for an alanine residue at position 224 (A224D) in the putative third cytoplasmic loop. This mutation was observed in a Japanese population at an allele frequency of...
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