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Crucial role of the specificity-determining loop of the integrin beta4 subunit in the binding of cells to laminin-5 and outside-in signal transduction.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 3 Oct 2003
Tsuruta Daisuke, Hopkinson Susan B, Lane Kimberly D, Werner Michael E, Cryns Vincent L, Jones Jonathan C R
Abstract excerpt
Within each hemidesmosome, alpha6beta4 integrin plays a crucial role in hemidesmosome assembly by binding to laminin-5 in the basement membrane zone of epithelial tissue. Recent analyses have implicated "specificity-determining loops" (SDLs) in the I-like domain of beta integrin in regulating lig...
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