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Specificity for homooligomer versus heterooligomer formation in integrin transmembrane helices.
Journal of molecular biology - 3 Sept 2010
Zhu Hua, Metcalf Douglas G, Streu Craig N, Billings Paul C, Degrado William F, Bennett Joel S
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Transmembrane (TM) helices engage in homomeric and heteromeric interactions that play essential roles in the folding and assembly of TM proteins. However, features that explain their propensity to interact homomerically or heteromerically and determine the strength of these interactions are poorly understood. Integrins provide an ideal model system for addressing these questions because the TM helices of...
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