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Palmitoylation of human thyrotropin receptor: slower intracellular trafficking of the palmitoylation-defective mutant.
Endocrinology - 1 Feb 1998
Tanaka K, Nagayama Y, Nishihara E, Namba H, Yamashita S, Niwa M
Abstract excerpt
We here show that the epitope-tagged human TSH receptor (TSHRmyc) is covalently modified with palmitic acid by thioesterification. Side-directed mutagenesis identified Cys699 in the C-terminal cytoplasmic tail of the receptor as the putative palmitoylation site. Mutation of Cys699 to Ala results in the nonpalmitoylated receptor (TSHRmycC699A) in which high affinity TSH binding, Gs coupling, homologous...
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