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Substitution of cysteine for a conserved alanine residue in the catalytic center of type II iodothyronine deiodinase alters interaction with reducing cofactor.
Endocrinology - 1 Apr 2002
Kuiper George G J M, Klootwijk Willem, Visser Theo J
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UNLABELLED: Human type II iodothyronine deiodinase (D2) catalyzes the activation of T(4) to T(3). The D2 enzyme, like the type I (D1) and type III (D3) deiodinases, contains a selenocysteine (SeC) residue (residue 133 in D2) in the highly conserved catalytic center. Remarkably, all of the D2 proteins cloned so far have an alanine two residue-amino terminal to the SeC, whereas all D1 and D3 proteins contain a...
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