KDEL receptor, located mainly in the cis-Golgi network and in both COPII and COPI vesicles, binds proteins bearing the KDEL sorting signal and returns them to the ER

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#Id: 8159

#XL - Q Biochemistry

KDEL receptor, located mainly in the cis-Golgi network and in both COPII and COPI vesicles, binds proteins bearing the KDEL sorting signal and returns them to the ER

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#Id: 8315

#XL - Q Biochemistry

Actin can reversibly assemble into filaments that consist of two helices of actin subunits

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#Id: 8314

#XL - Q Biochemistry

Each actin subunit (globular or G-actin) is a 375-amino-acid polypeptide contains a Mg+2 ion complexed with either ATP or ADP

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#Id: 8313

#XL - Q Biochemistry

3 isoforms of actin-

α - expressed only in muscle cells

β and γ - found together in almost all non-muscle cells

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#Id: 8312

#XL - Q Biochemistry

Actin exists as: 

a globular monomer -G-actin 

a filamentous polymer- F-actin

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#Id: 8311

#XL - Q Biochemistry

Actin,

basic building block of microfilaments extraordinarily well conserved among eukaryotes.

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#Id: 8226

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I-cell disease

• almost all of the hydrolytic enzymes are missing from the lysosomes of many cell types.

• mis-sorting has been traced to a defective or missing GlcNAc phosphotransferase.