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Topology of the membrane-bound form of complement protein C9 probed by glycosylation mapping, anti-peptide antibody binding, and disulfide modification.
Molecular immunology - 1 Apr 2010
Rossi Véronique, Wang Yunxia, Esser Alfred F
Abstract excerpt
The two N-linked oligosaccharides in native human C9 were deleted by site-specific mutagenesis. This aglycosyl-C9 did not differ from its native form in hemolytic and bactericidal activity. A new N-glycosylation site (K311N/E313T) was introduced into the turn of a helix-turn-helix [HTH] fold that had been postulated to form a transmembrane hairpin in membrane-bound C9. This glycosylated form of human C9 was as...
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