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Irregular dimerization of guanylate cyclase-activating protein 1 mutants causes loss of target activation.
European journal of biochemistry - 1 Sept 2004
Hwang Ji-Young, Schlesinger Ramona, Koch Karl-Wilhelm
Abstract excerpt
Guanylate cyclase-activating proteins (GCAPs) are neuronal calcium sensors that activate membrane bound guanylate cyclases (EC 4.6.1.2.) of vertebrate photoreceptor cells when cytoplasmic Ca2+ decreases during illumination. GCAPs contain four EF-hand Ca2+-binding motifs, but the first EF-hand is nonfunctional. It was concluded that for GCAP-2, the loss of Ca2+-binding ability of EF-hand 1 resulted in a region...
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