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Uncovering allostery and regulation in SAMHD1 through molecular dynamics simulations.
Proteins - 1 Jul 2017
Patra Kajwal Kumar, Bhattacharya Akash, Bhattacharya Swati
Abstract excerpt
The human sterile alpha motif and HD domain-containing protein 1 (SAMHD1) is a retroviral restriction factor in myeloid cells and non-cycling CD4+ T cells, a feature imputed to its phosphohydrolase activity-the enzyme depletes the cellular dNTP levels inhibiting reverse transcription. The functionally active form of SAMHD1 is an allosterically triggered tetramer which utilizes GTP-Mg+2 -dNTP cross bridges to link...
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