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Mechanism of activation of the Formin protein Daam1.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 8 Jan 2008
Liu Wei, Sato Akira, Khadka Deepak, Bharti Ritu, Diaz Hector, Runnels Loren W, Habas Raymond
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The Formin proteins are central players in mediating cytoskeletal reorganization and are epistatically positioned in a pathway downstream of Rho activation. These proteins exist in the cytoplasm in an autoinhibited state, which is mediated by intramolecular interactions between the amino-terminal GTPase binding domain (GBD) that encompasses the diaphanous inhibitory domain (DID) and the carboxyl-terminal...
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