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Site-to-site interdomain communication may mediate different loss-of-function mechanisms in a cancer-associated NQO1 polymorphism.
Scientific reports - 14 Mar 2017
Medina-Carmona Encarnación, Neira Jose L, Salido Eduardo, Fuchs Julian E, Palomino-Morales Rogelio, Timson David J, Pey Angel L
Abstract excerpt
Disease associated genetic variations often cause intracellular enzyme inactivation, dysregulation and instability. However, allosteric communication of mutational effects to distant functional sites leading to loss-of-function remains poorly understood. We characterize here interdomain site-to-site communication by which a common cancer-associated single nucleotide polymorphism (c.C609T/p.P187S) reduces the...
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