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Structural insight into Caenorhabditis elegans sex-determining protein FEM-2.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 26 Jul 2013
Zhang Yi, Zhao Haifeng, Wang Jia, Ge Jingpeng, Li Yang, Gu Jinke, Li Peng, Feng Yue, Yang Maojun
Abstract excerpt
In the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, fem-1, fem-2, and fem-3 play crucial roles in male sexual development. Among these three genes, fem-2 encodes a PP2C (serine/threonine phosphatase type 2C)-like protein, whose activity promotes the development of masculinity. Different from the canonical PP2Cs, FEM-2 consists of an additional N-terminal domain (NTD) apart from its C-terminal catalytic domain. Interestingly,...
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