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A Microfluidic-based Hydrodynamic Trap for Single Particles
Published on: January 22, 2011
刺通过诱导一个 conformational 开关来调节光滑活动
Yun Zhao1, Chao Tong, Jin Jiang
1Department of Developmental Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA.
Nature
|October 26, 2007
概括
酸化通过破坏抑制性Arg集群激活了Smoothened (SMO) 蛋白质,从而引起了对Hedgehog路径发育中的信号传递至关重要的构造性开关.
科学领域:
- 发育生物学 发展生物学
- 分子细胞生物学 分子细胞生物学
- 信号传输 信号传输
背景情况:
- 刺 (HH) 形态生成途径对动物发育至关重要.
- 七个跨膜蛋白质Smoothened (SMO) 调解HH信号传导,但其激活机制尚不清楚.
研究的目的:
- 阐明HH信号激活SMO的分子机制.
- 调查酸化和氨酸集群在SMO监管中的作用.
主要方法:
- 研究了Drosophila melanogaster中的SMO激活.
- 分析了SMO细胞质尾巴中酸化和突变的影响.
- 检查了SMO的形状变化和二元化.
主要成果:
- HH信号诱导SMO碳氧终端尾部的酸化.
- 酸化对抗抑制性Arg集群,缓解SMO自身抑制. 酸化对抗抑制性Arg集群,缓解SMO自身抑制.
- 这导致了结构转换,SMO二元化和细胞表面积累,激活了该途径.
结论:
- SMO激活涉及一种依赖酸化的形状开关,释放自身抑制.
- 这种SMO蛋白质的功能是作为一个静止剂,通过差异性酸化Arg集群,将分级的HH信号转化为独特的发育反应.
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