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Altered specificity of Hint-W123Q supports a role for Hint inhibition by ASW in avian sex determination.
Physiological genomics - 15 Dec 2004
Parks Kristen P, Seidle Heather, Wright Nathan, Sperry Jeffrey B, Bieganowski Pawel, Howitz Konrad, Wright Dennis L, Brenner Charles
Abstract excerpt
Hint is a universally conserved, dimeric AMP-lysine hydrolase encoded on the avian Z chromosome. Tandemly repeated on the female-specific W chromosome, Asw encodes a potentially sex-determining, dominant-negative Hint dimerization partner whose substrate-interacting residues were specifically altered in evolution. To test the hypothesis that Gln127 of Asw is responsible for depression and/or alteration of Hint...
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