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SUBMITTER: Nyon MP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3438405 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nyon Mun Peak MP Kirkpatrick John J Cabrita Lisa D LD Christodoulou John J Gooptu Bibek B
Biomolecular NMR assignments 20111123 2
Alpha(1)-antitrypsin is a 45-kDa (394-residue) serine protease inhibitor synthesized by hepatocytes, which is released into the circulatory system and protects the lung from the actions of neutrophil elastase via a conformational transition within a dynamic inhibitory mechanism. Relatively common point mutations subvert this transition, causing polymerisation of α(1)-antitrypsin and deficiency of the circulating protein, predisposing carriers to severe lung and liver disease. We have assigned th ...[more]