Anatomy of the red cell membrane skeleton: unanswered questions

SE Lux IV - Blood, The Journal of the American Society of …, 2016 - ashpublications.org
The red cell membrane skeleton is a pseudohexagonal meshwork of spectrin, actin, protein
4.1 R, ankyrin, and actin-associated proteins that laminates the inner membrane surface and …

The ankyrin repeat as molecular architecture for protein recognition

LK Mosavi, TJ Cammett, DC Desrosiers… - Protein science, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The ankyrin repeat is one of the most frequently observed amino acid motifs in protein
databases. This protein–protein interaction module is involved in a diverse set of cellular …

TAN-1, the human homolog of the Drosophila notch gene, is broken by chromosomal translocations in T lymphoblastic neoplasms

LW Ellisen, J Bird, DC West, AL Soreng, TC Reynolds… - Cell, 1991 - cell.com
Previously we described joining of DNA in the 9 T cell receptor gene to DNA of an
uncharacterized locus in at (7; 9)(q34; q34. 3) chromosomal translocation from a case of …

[HTML][HTML] Structure of an IκBα/NF-κB complex

MD Jacobs, SC Harrison - Cell, 1998 - cell.com
The inhibitory protein, IκBα, sequesters the transcription factor, NF-κB, as an inactive
complex in the cytoplasm. The structure of the IκBα ankyrin repeat domain, bound to a …

Spectrin and ankyrin-based pathways: metazoan inventions for integrating cells into tissues

V Bennett, AJ Baines - Physiological reviews, 2001 - journals.physiology.org
The spectrin-based membrane skeleton of the humble mammalian erythrocyte has provided
biologists with a set of interacting proteins with diverse roles in organization and survival of …

Regulation of cell adhesion and anchorage-dependent growth by a new β1-integrin-linked protein kinase

GE Hannigan, C Leung-Hagesteijn, L Fitz-Gibbon… - Nature, 1996 - nature.com
THE interaction of cells with the extracellular matrix regulates cell shape, motility, growth,
survival, differentiation and gene expression, through integrin-mediated signal transduction1 …

Ankyrin repeat: a unique motif mediating protein− protein interactions

J Li, A Mahajan, MD Tsai - Biochemistry, 2006 - ACS Publications
Ankyrin repeat, one of the most widely existing protein motifs in nature, consists of 30− 34
amino acid residues and exclusively functions to mediate protein− protein interactions, some …

Designing repeat proteins: well-expressed, soluble and stable proteins from combinatorial libraries of consensus ankyrin repeat proteins

HK Binz, MT Stumpp, P Forrer, P Amstutz… - Journal of molecular …, 2003 - Elsevier
We describe an efficient way to generate combinatorial libraries of stable, soluble and well-
expressed ankyrin repeat (AR) proteins. Using a combination of sequence and structure …

The ankyrin repeat: a diversity of interactions on a common structural framework

SG Sedgwick, SJ Smerdon - Trends in biochemical sciences, 1999 - cell.com
The ankyrin repeat is one of the most common protein sequence motifs. Recent X-ray and
NMR structures of ankyrin-repeat proteins and their complexes have provided invaluable …

Specific EGF repeats of Notch mediate interactions with Delta and Serrate: implications for Notch as a multifunctional receptor

I Rebay, RJ Fleming, RG Fehon, L Cherbas, P Cherbas… - Cell, 1991 - cell.com
The neurogenic loci Notch and Delta, which both encode EGF-homologous transmembrane
proteins, appear to function together in mediating cell-cell communication and have been …