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Analysis of the Drosophila betaPS subunit indicates that regulation of integrin activity is a primal function of the C8-C9 loop.
Experimental cell research - 10 Mar 2004
Bunch Thomas A, Miller Steven W, Brower Danny L
Abstract excerpt
Integrin-ligand interactions can be influenced by the sequence in a disulfide-bridged loop between the 8th and 9th beta subunit cysteines. Previous experiments are consistent with C8-C9 loop residues being involved in direct ligand-integrin interactions and/or being important in heterodimer regulation. In betaPS from Drosophila melanogaster and three other dipterans, the C8-C9 loop consists of only two amino...
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