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Ca2+-dependent conformational changes in a C-terminal cytosolic domain of polycystin-2.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 4 Sept 2009
Schumann Frank, Hoffmeister Helen, Bader Reto, Schmidt Maren, Witzgall Ralph, Kalbitzer Hans Robert
Abstract excerpt
The PKD1 and PKD2 genes are the genes that are mutated in patients suffering from autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. The human PKD2 gene codes for a 968-amino acid long membrane protein called polycystin-2 that represents a cation channel whose activity can be regulated by Ca(2+) ions. By CD, fluorescence, and NMR spectroscopy, we have studied a 117-amino acid-long fragment of the cytoplasmic domain of...
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