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- noun Plural form of
G-protein .
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Examples
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G-proteins and their role in signal transduction in cells
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G-proteins, it is probably better to admit that the pharmacological procedure which we developed for obtaining agonist-receptor dissociation constants can only give approximate relative values.
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Some G-proteins alter the flux of ions over the cell membranes and thus the activity of the cell.
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G-proteins affect protein phosphorylation, and exert control over cell division and differentiation.
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Many symptoms of disease are explained by an altered function of G-proteins.
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Disturbances in the function of G-proteins - too much or too little of them, or genetically determined alterations in their composition - can lead to disease.
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Furthermore, some of the symptoms of common diseases such as diabetes or alcoholism may depend on altered transduction of signals through G-proteins.
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G-proteins have been so named because they bind guanosine triphosphate (GTP).
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Alfred G. Gilman and Martin Rodbell for their discovery of "G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells".
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A toxin produced by pertussis bacteria instead prevents the activation of some G-proteins.
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