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Residues in the human corticosteroid-binding globulin reactive center loop that influence steroid binding before and after elastase cleavage.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 9 Jan 2009
Lin Hai-Yan, Underhill Caroline, Gardill Bernd R, Muller Yves A, Hammond Geoffrey L
Abstract excerpt
Corticosteroid-binding globulin (CBG) is a non-inhibitory serine proteinase inhibitor (serpin) that transports cortisol and progesterone in blood. Crystal structures of rat CBG and a thrombin-cleaved human CBG:anti-trypsin (Pittsburgh) chimera show how structural transitions after proteolytic cleavage of the CBG reactive center loop (RCL) could disrupt steroid binding. This ligand release mechanism is assumed to...
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