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W E Meador1, A R Means, F A Quiocho

  • 1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|December 10, 1993
PubMed
まとめ

カルシウム結合により,カルモジュリンは中央ヘリクスを解き放ち,脳カルモジュリン依存タンパク質キナーゼIIα.alphaのような標的酵素を認識するための構造を最適化します. この構造的な柔軟性は,細胞の信号伝達の鍵です.

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