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All other receptor/ligand interactions are hydrophobic.
Ankyrins mapped near several known EGF ligand and/or FGF genes (Figure 4).
However, gel shift studies indicated that the mobility of the CAR/RXR complex bound to a DR-5 element is increased by the presence of 9-cis RA, suggesting that the RXR ligand can bind to the CAR/RXR heterodimer.
This cleavage exposes an amino acid sequence which then serves as a tethered ligand activating transmembrane signaling.
Comparing the efficacies of the ligands in this study to the endogenous ligand β-endorphin indicates that fentanyl, etorphine, lofentanil, butorphanol and hydromorphone are all full agonists.