Galpha Gbetagamma dissociation may be due to retraction of a buried lysine and disruption of an aromatic cluster by a GTP-sensing Arg Trp pair.

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Published in Protein Sci on November 01, 2007

Authors

Andrew F Neuwald1

Author Affiliations

1: J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, USA. aneuwald@som.umaryland.edu

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