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In an effort to determine if four hydroxyl amino acid residues in an acidic environment might be a common motif for phosphorylation and receptor regulation, we searched the G Protein-Coupled Receptor Database for four consecutive hydroxyl residues (either serine or threonine) in a linear sequence that was at least 1/3 acidic with no basic residues which occurred in either the third intracellular loop or the carboxyl terminal tail.
It was also surprising that the extracellular portion of any of the EGF receptor proteins was also not represented among the proteins found to interact with the extracellular domain of proHB-EGF, since the mature protein proteolytically cleaved from proHB-EGF (mHB-EGF) as well as the membrane bound form are known to interact with the EGF receptor.
Tumor 5A had higher expressions than did tumor 9 of the progesterone receptor ( PR ; 2.7-fold), human mammaglobin (36.
Sherry Leonard and Robert Freedman of the University of Colorado in Denver, Colorado, have shown that expression of the gene for the alpha 7 neuronal nicotinic receptor is reduced in schizophrenics, and have argued that alpha 7 abnormalities lead to attention problems.
One 5' truncated cDNA clone, REP2-18A, was highly homologous to the human EP 2 receptor but lacked the 5' 150 bp encoding the first 50 amino acids (see results).