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A soluble peripherin/Rds C-terminal polypeptide promotes membrane fusion and changes conformation upon membrane association.
Experimental eye research - 1 Oct 2003
Boesze-Battaglia Kathleen, Goldberg Andrew F X, Dispoto Janice, Katragadda Madan, Cesarone Gregory, Albert Arlene D
Abstract excerpt
Photoreceptor rod cells contain a unique tetraspanin fusion protein known as peripherin/rds. This protein is important in membrane fusion events hypothesized to be essential to disk membrane morphogenesis and disk shedding. In vivo and in vitro fusogenic activity has been mapped to the C-terminal domain of peripherin/rds. Moreover, a fusion peptide domain localized to a 15 amino acid long region (residues...
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