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Two mutations in a conserved structural motif in the insulin receptor inhibit normal folding and intracellular transport of the receptor.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 11 Mar 1994
Wertheimer E, Barbetti F, Muggeo M, Roth J, Taylor S I
Abstract excerpt
Insulin initiates its biological response by binding to the extracellular domain of the insulin receptor. The N-terminal half of the alpha-subunit contains several repeats of a loosely conserved motif consisting of a central glycine plus several hydrophobic amino acid residues upstream from the glycine, Hy phi-Xaa-Xaa-Hy phi-Xaa-Hy phi-Hy phi-Xaa-Gly (where Hy phi represents a hydrophobic amino acid residue)....
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