Increased stability of the TM helix oligomer abrogates the apoptotic activity of the human Fas receptor.

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Human death receptors control apoptotic events during cell differentiation, cell homeostasis and the elimination of damaged or infected cells. Receptor activation involves ligand-induced structural reorganizations of preformed receptor trimers. Here we show that the death receptor transmembrane domains only have a weak intrinsic tendency to homo-oligomerize within a membrane, and thus these domains potentially do...

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