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Article: Study of thyroxine transporter molecule shows how key hormone hitches a lift round body.
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- Proteomics Weekly
- Article date:
- June 2, 2003
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2003 JUN 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Structural analysis has revealed for the first time how a key messenger in the body's chemical communication system hooks up with one of the proteins that delivers it to sites of action in the body.
Using X-ray crystallography, scientists from Imperial College London and the University of Hawaii have identified the location of four binding sites on human serum albumin (HSA), the principal protein in blood plasma, to which the chemical messenger thyroxine attaches.
Thyroxine is the primary hormone released from the thyroid gland, and acts on nearly every cell in the body, affecting important mechanisms that ...