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The opossum alpha-2C adrenergic receptor has a very similar acidic serine motif (EESSTSE) in the third intracellular loop (Figure 1; [ 21 ] ), whereas the human alpha-2C receptor has a DESSAAAE sequence in the same region (Figure 2; [ 22 ] ). Thus, we postulated that the lack of down-regulation in the human alpha-2C was related to having only two rather than four serines in the motif, and furthermore that the ability of the opossum alpha-2C to undergo down-regulation was dependent on having all four serine/threonine residues in the EESSTSE motif.
If inactivation of these genes is a random process, it was understandable that people who inherit an inactivated copy of a tumour suppressor gene had a higher risk of developing the associated form(s) of cancer than people born with two normal copies, as postulated in Alfred Knudson's (1971) two-hit model.
While this may be true for some proteins, the postulated cytoskeletal association of threonine558-phosphorylated moesin was maintained only when platelets were extracted with DOTMAC, but not with Triton X-100 [ 19].
Academic reviewers of this dictionary will, as usual, write a great deal about whether the author was right to choose one postulated form of an Old English name rather than a slightly different one.
We postulated several potential benefits that could arise, including natural protein processing and intercellular presentation of the transgene product.