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SUBMITTER: Bertini I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2676012 | biostudies-literature | 2009 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bertini Ivano I Fragai Marco M Luchinat Claudio C Melikian Maxime M Mylonas Efstratios E Sarti Niko N Svergun Dmitri I DI
The Journal of biological chemistry 20090312 19
The presence of extensive reciprocal conformational freedom between the catalytic and the hemopexin-like domains of full-length matrix metalloproteinase-1 (MMP-1) is demonstrated by NMR and small angle x-ray scattering experiments. This finding is discussed in relation to the essentiality of the hemopexin-like domain for the collagenolytic activity of MMP-1. The conformational freedom experienced by the present system, having the shortest linker between the two domains, when compared with simila ...[more]