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SUBMITTER: Schmidt T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5016151 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schmidt Thomas T Ye Feng F Situ Alan J AJ An Woojin W Ginsberg Mark H MH Ulmer Tobias S TS
The Journal of biological chemistry 20160630 34
In many families of cell surface receptors, a single transmembrane (TM) α-helix separates ecto- and cytosolic domains. A defined coupling of ecto- and TM domains must be essential to allosteric receptor regulation but remains little understood. Here, we characterize the linker structure, dynamics, and resulting ecto-TM domain coupling of integrin αIIb in model constructs and relate it to other integrin α subunits by mutagenesis. Cellular integrin activation assays subsequently validate the findi ...[more]