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G8: a novel domain associated with polycystic kidney disease and non-syndromic hearing loss
Quan-yuan He1, Xiang-hua Liu, Qiang Li
1Key Laboratory of Protein Chemistry and Developmental Biology of Education Committee, College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University Changsha, People's Republic of China.
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We report a novel protein domain-G8-which contains five repeated beta-strand pairs and is present in some disease-related proteins such as PKHD1, KIAA1199, TMEM2 as well as other uncharacterized proteins. Most G8-containing proteins are predicted to be membrane-integral or secreted. The G8 domain may be involved in extracellular ligand binding and catalysis. It has been reported that mis-sense mutations in the two G8 domains of human PKHD1 protein resulted in a less stable protein and are associated with autosomal-recessive polycystic kidney disease, indicating the importance of the domain structure. G8 is also present in the N-terminus of some non-syndromic hearing loss disease-related proteins such as KIAA1109 and TMEM2. Discovery of G8 domain will be important for the research of the structure/function of related proteins and beneficial for the development of novel therapeutics.
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liangsp@hunnu.edu.cn
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