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The Journal of biological chemistry, 2003-06, Vol.278 (26), p.24118-24124
Ort / Verlag
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Erscheinungsjahr
2003
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The endogenous ligand of guanylyl cyclase C, guanylin, is produced as the 94-amino-acid prohormone proguanylin, with the
hormone guanylin located at the COOH terminus of the prohormone. The solution structure of proguanylin adopts a new protein
fold and consists of a three-helix bundle, a small three-stranded β-sheet of two NH 2 -terminal strands and one COOH-terminal strand, and an unstructured linker region. The sequence corresponding to guanylin
is fixed in its bioactive topology and is involved in interactions with the NH 2 -terminal β-hairpin: the hormone region (residues 80â94) partly wraps around the first 4 NH 2 -terminal residues that thereby shield parts of the hormone surface. These interactions provide an explanation for the negligible
bioactivity of the prohormone as well as the important role of the NH 2 -terminal residues in the disulfide-coupled folding of proguanylin. Since the ligand binding region of guanylyl cyclase C
is predicted to be located around an exposed β-strand, the intramolecular interactions observed between guanylin and its
prosequence may be comparable with the guanylin/receptor interaction.