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Lysines and Arginines play non-redundant roles in mediating chemokine-glycosaminoglycan interactions.
Scientific reports - 16 Aug 2018
Joseph Prem Raj B, Sawant Kirti V, Iwahara Junji, Garofalo Roberto P, Desai Umesh R, Rajarathnam Krishna
Abstract excerpt
Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) bind a large array of proteins and mediate fundamental and diverse roles in human physiology. Ion pair interactions between protein lysines/arginines and GAG sulfates/carboxylates mediate binding. Neutrophil-activating chemokines (NAC) are GAG-binding proteins, and their sequences reveal high selectivity for lysines over arginines indicating they are functionally not equivalent. NAC...
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