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Thus, we postulated that the lack of down-regulation in the human alpha-2C subtype is related to having only two rather than four serines in the motif, and that mutating the threonine and serine residues at the end of the opossum EESSTSE motif to valine and alanine residues to give EESSVAE might prevent down-regulation of the opossum alpha-2C receptor.
Being smaller, the alanine side chain apparently is unable to form as good interaction with the adenosines as does valine.
To demonstrate that the DHBV P protein possesses an RNAseH activity that is active on RNA:DNA heteroduplexes generated during reverse transcription, we altered P amino acid 715 from aspartic acid to valine (D715V) within the RNAseH domain of P and examined the effect of this mutation on reverse transcription in viral core particles.
Previous biochemical studies on MAO and COMT have shown that the COMT Valine isoforms have 4-fold higher levels of enzymatic activity than the Methionine isoform.
This suggested that the increased size of the isoleucine side chain compared to valine might improve a hydrophobic interaction with one or both adenosines.