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Functional restoration of the Ca2+-myristoyl switch in a recoverin mutant.
Journal of molecular biology - 4 Jul 2003
Senin Ivan I, Vaganova Svetlana A, Weiergräber Oliver H, Ergorov Nikolay S, Philippov Pavel P, Koch Karl Wilhelm
Abstract excerpt
Recoverin is a neuronal calcium sensor protein that plays a crucial role in vertebrate phototransduction. It undergoes a Ca(2+)-myristoyl switch when Ca(2+) binds to its two functional EF-hand motifs (EF-hands 2 and 3), each present in one of recoverin's two domains. Impairment of Ca(2+)-binding...
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