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Complex between nidogen and laminin fragments reveals a paradigmatic beta-propeller interface.
Nature - 21 Aug 2003
Takagi Junichi, Yang Yuting, Liu Jin-Huan, Wang Jia-Huai, Springer Timothy A
Abstract excerpt
Basement membranes are fundamental to tissue organization and physiology in all metazoans. The interaction between laminin and nidogen is crucial to the assembly of basement membranes. The structure of the interacting domains reveals a six-bladed Tyr-Trp-Thr-Asp (YWTD) beta-propeller domain in nidogen bound to laminin epidermal-growth-factor-like (LE) modules III3-5 in laminin (LE3-5). Laminin LE module 4 binds...
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