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Destabilization of transthyretin by pathogenic mutations in the DE loop.
Proteins - 15 Feb 2007
Takeuchi Makoto, Mizuguchi Mineyuki, Kouno Takahide, Shinohara Yoshinori, Aizawa Tomoyasu, Demura Makoto, Mori Yoshihiro, Shinoda Hiroyuki, Kawano Keiichi
Abstract excerpt
Transthyretin single-amino-acid variants are responsible for familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy, in which transthyretin variants accumulate extracellularly in the form of fibrillar aggregates. We studied the structural stabilities of four transthyretin variants (L58H, L58R, T59K, and E61K), in which a positively charged amino acid is introduced in a loop region between the D- and E-strands. In addition to being...
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