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Importance of a conserved sequence motif in transmembrane segment S3 for the gating of human TRPM8 and TRPM2.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Winking Mathis, Hoffmann Daniel C, Kühn Cornelia, Hilgers Ralf-Dieter, Lückhoff Andreas, Kühn Frank J P
Abstract excerpt
For mammalian TRPM8, the amino acid residues asparagine-799 and aspartate-802 are essential for the stimulation of the channel by the synthetic agonist icilin. Both residues belong to the short sequence motif N-x-x-D within the transmembrane segment S3 highly conserved in the entire superfamily of voltage-dependent cation channels, among them TRPM8. Moreover, they are also conserved in the closely related TRPM2...
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