Publication Date:
1987-04-17
Description:
The clathrin light chains fall into two major classes, LCA and LCB. In an intact clathrin triskelion, one light chain, of either class, is bound to the proximal segment of a heavy chain leg. Analysis of rat brain and liver complementary DNA clones for LCA and LCB shows that the two light chain classes are closely related. There appear to be several members of each class having deletions of varying length aligned at the same position. A set of ten heptad elements, characteristic of alpha-helical coiled coils, is a striking feature of the central part of each derived amino acid sequence. These observations suggest a model in which the alpha-helical segment mediates binding to clathrin heavy chains and the amino- and carboxyl-terminal segments mediate interactions with other proteins. They also suggest an explanation for the observed tissue-dependent size variation for members of each class.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kirchhausen, T -- Scarmato, P -- Harrison, S C -- Monroe, J J -- Chow, E P -- Mattaliano, R J -- Ramachandran, K L -- Smart, J E -- Ahn, A H -- Brosius, J -- MH 38819/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM 36548-01/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Apr 17;236(4799):320-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3563513" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Animals
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Base Sequence
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Brain/metabolism
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Clathrin/*genetics
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Cloning, Molecular
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DNA/analysis
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Liver/metabolism
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Macromolecular Substances
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*Polymorphism, Genetic
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Rats
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Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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