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Toward an antitumor form of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease: the crystal structure of three noncovalent dimeric mutants.
Biopolymers - 1 Dec 2009
Merlino Antonello, Russo Krauss Irene, Perillo Margherita, Mattia Carlo Andrea, Ercole Carmine, Picone Delia, Vergara Alessandro, Sica Filomena
Abstract excerpt
The cytotoxic action of bovine seminal ribonuclease (BS-RNase) depends on its noncovalent swapped dimeric form (NCD-BS), which presents a compact structure that allows the molecule to escape ribonuclease inhibitor (RI). A key role in the acquisition of this structure has been attributed to the concomitant presence of a proline in position 19 and a leucine in position 28. The introduction of Leu28, Cys31, and...
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