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  • adjective biochemistry Occurring between protein subunits

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inter- +‎ subunit

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  • Liu Q, Fournier MJ (2007) rRNA modifications in an intersubunit bridge of the ribosome strongly affect both ribosome biogenesis and activity.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Clément Bellemer et al. 2010

  • Following the intersubunit conformation of the ribosome during translation in real time

    Naturejobs - All Jobs Darcie J Miller 2010

  • We present data for a model in which cooperative activation includes the intersubunit 'capture' of regulatory segments.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs Luke H Chao 2010

  • Results show that despite the presence of mutations in the intersubunit contact domain, the K422R and H391Y mutant proteins maintained their homotetrameric structure, similar to the wild-type protein, but showed a loss of activity of 75 and 20\%, respectively.

    Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue K. Akhtar 2009

  • Here we use fluorescence spectrophotometry and protein chemistry to demonstrate that the Pdx1 C terminus is indispensable for PLP synthase activity and mediates intersubunit cross-talk within the enzyme complex.

    Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue 2009

  • Hara K, Hiles I, Bax B, Gout I, et al. (1994) PI 3-kinase: structural and functional analysis of intersubunit interactions.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2008

  • Region V (orange) represents a loop structure on the surface of the molecule and contains residues involved in intersubunit interactions in EcGK dimerization.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Pierre M. Durand et al. 2008

  • Figures 4C and 4D) and VI (green in Figures 4C and 4D) are exposed on the surface of the molecule and in EcGK, they participate in intersubunit and allosteric interactions, respectively.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Pierre M. Durand et al. 2008

  • Underlined regions in EcGK are implicated as follows: intersubunit interactions (black), FBP regulatory site (green) and IIA Figure 2 and Table 1) under neutral (red lines) or positive

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Pierre M. Durand et al. 2008

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