Article
Protein 4.2: a complex linker.
Blood cells, molecules & diseases - 1 Jan 2000
Satchwell Timothy J, Shoemark Debbie K, Sessions Richard B, Toye Ashley M
Abstract excerpt
The peripheral membrane protein, protein 4.2, is one of the most abundant protein components of the erythrocyte membrane. Protein 4.2 has an important role in red cell membrane structure, its absence due to natural mutations in humans or gene knockout in mice has a detrimental effect on membrane stability and results in hereditary spherocytosis. It is known to be a point of connection between the band 3 complex...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Blood Proteins
- CD47 Antigen
- Cell Shape
- Cell Survival
- Cytoskeletal Proteins
- Cytoskeleton
- Erythrocyte Membrane
- Humans
- Membrane Proteins
- Mice
