Asymmetry in the Multiprotein Systems of Molecular Biology |
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Authors: | Blundell Tom L. Bolanos-Garcia Victor Chirgadze Dimitri Y. Harmer Nicholas J. Lo Thomas Pellegrini Luca Sibanda B. Lynn |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1GA |
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Abstract: | Signaling in living systems needs to achieve high specificity, to be reversible, and to achieve high signal to noise. Signaling mediated by multiprotein systems has evolved that avoids the requirement for high-affinity binary complexes that would be difficult to reverse and which, in the overcrowded cell, would lead to excessive noise in the system. Symmetrical structures are only occasionally formed. When they are, it is principally to colocate components, for example, the tyrosyl kinases of growth factors, where dimers form. Symmetry is, however, often broken, presumably to create more sensitivity and specificity in the signaling system by assembling other components, into higher-order multiprotein systems. The binding of a single heparin to two 1:1 FGF:FGFR complexes is an example, as is the binding of a single ligase to the Xrcc4 dimer, perhaps so creating a further DNA-binding site. |
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Keywords: | Multiprotein complexes symmetry signal transduction receptor tyrosyl kinases DNA repair systems |
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