Utrophin Lacks the Rod Domain Actin Binding Activity of Dystrophin
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Utrophin lacks the rod domain actin binding activity of dystrophin.
We previously identified a cluster of basic spectrin-like repeats in the dystrophin rod domain that binds F-actin through electrostatic interactions (Amann, K. J., Renley, B. A., and Ervasti, J. M. (1998) J. Biol. Chem. 273, 28419-28423). Because of the importance of actin binding to the presumed physiological role of dystrophin, we sought to determine whether the autosomal homologue of dystrop...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biological Chemistry
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0021-9258
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.50.35375