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Mutation of actin Tyr-53 alters the conformations of the DNase I-binding loop and the nucleotide-binding cleft.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 26 Mar 2010
Liu Xiong, Shu Shi, Hong Myoung-Soon S, Yu Bin, Korn Edward D
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All but 11 of the 323 known actin sequences have Tyr at position 53, and the 11 exceptions have the conservative substitution Phe, which raises the following questions. What is the critical role(s) of Tyr-53, and, if it can be replaced by Phe, why has this happened so infrequently? We compared th...
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