MOLECULAR-CLONING AND BINDING-PROPERTIES OF THE HUMAN TYPE-II ACTIVIN RECEPTOR

被引:83
作者
DONALDSON, CJ
MATHEWS, LS
VALE, WW
机构
[1] Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037
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10.1016/0006-291X(92)91194-U
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
A full-length cDNA for the type II human activin receptor was cloned by hybridization from a human testis cDNA library. The sequence encodes a 513 amino acid protein that is 99% identical, at the amino acid level, with the mouse type II activin receptor. The type II human activin receptor consists of an extracellular domain that specifically binds activin A with a Kd of 360 pM, a single-membrane spanning domain, and an intracellular kinase domain with predicted serine/threonine specificity. © 1992.
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