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Enzymatic analysis of a rhomboid intramembrane protease implicates transmembrane helix 5 as the lateral substrate gate.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 May 2007
Baker Rosanna P, Young Keith, Feng Liang, Shi Yigong, Urban Sinisa
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Intramembrane proteolysis is a core regulatory mechanism of cells that raises a biochemical paradox of how hydrolysis of peptide bonds is accomplished within the normally hydrophobic environment of the membrane. Recent high-resolution crystal structures have revealed that rhomboid proteases contain a catalytic serine recessed into the plane of the membrane, within a hydrophilic cavity that opens to the...
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