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Key interactions in integrin ectodomain responsible for global conformational change detected by elastic network normal-mode analysis.
Biophysical journal - 15 Sept 2008
Matsumoto Atsushi, Kamata Tetsuji, Takagi Junichi, Iwasaki Kenji, Yura Kei
Abstract excerpt
Integrin, a membrane protein with a huge extracellular domain, participates in cell-cell and cell-extracellular-matrix interactions for metazoan. A group of integrins is known to perform a large-scale structural change when the protein is activated, but the activation mechanism and generality of the conformational change remain to be elucidated. We performed normal-mode analysis of the elastic network model on...
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