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Constitutive cleavage of the single-pass transmembrane protein alcadeinα prevents aberrant peripheral retention of Kinesin-1.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Maruta Chiaki, Saito Yuhki, Hata Saori, Gotoh Naoya, Suzuki Toshiharu, Yamamoto Tohru
Abstract excerpt
Various membrane proteins are shed by proteinases, constitutively and/or when stimulated by external signals. While the physiological significance of external signal-induced cleavages has been intensely investigated, relatively little is known about the function of constitutive cleavages. Alcadeinα (Alcα; also called Calsyntenin-1) is an evolutionarily conserved type I single-pass transmembrane protein that binds...
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