Cystine knot of the gonadotropin alpha subunit is critical for intracellular behavior but not for in vitro biological activity.

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The common alpha subunit of glycoprotein hormones contains five disulfide bonds. Based on the published crystal structure, the assignments are 7-31, 59-87, 10-60, 28-82, and 32-84; the last three comprise the cystine knot, a structure also seen in a variety of growth factors. Previously, we demonstrated that the efficiency of secretion and the ability to form heterodimers by alpha subunits bearing single cysteine...

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