Structural and Molecular Evolutionary Analysis of Agouti and Agouti-Related Proteins
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Structural and molecular evolutionary analysis of Agouti and Agouti-related proteins.
Agouti (ASIP) and Agouti-related protein (AgRP) are endogenous antagonists of melanocortin receptors that play critical roles in the regulation of pigmentation and energy balance, respectively, and which arose from a common ancestral gene early in vertebrate evolution. The N-terminal domain of ASIP facilitates antagonism by binding to an accessory receptor, but here we show that the N-terminal ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Chemistry & Biology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1074-5521
DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2006.10.006