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ArticleProtein science : a publication of the Protein Society2018

Structure dissection of zebrafish progranulins identifies a well-folded granulin/epithelin module protein with pro-cell survival activities.

Ping Wang, Babykumari Chitramuthu, Andrew Bateman, Hugh P J Bennett, Ping Xu, Feng Ni

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Article in Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  1. Immune modulation promotes heart regeneration through macrophage and Granulin functions in medaka.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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Ping WangDepartment of Biochemistry, McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, McGill University, 3655 Promenade Sir William Osler, Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1Y6, Canada.
Babykumari ChitramuthuDivision of Experimental Medicine, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, 1001 Decarie Boulevard, Montreal, Quebec, H4A 3J1, Canada.
Andrew BatemanDivision of Experimental Medicine, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, 1001 Decarie Boulevard, Montreal, Quebec, H4A 3J1, Canada.
Hugh P J BennettDivision of Experimental Medicine, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, 1001 Decarie Boulevard, Montreal, Quebec, H4A 3J1, Canada.
Ping XuProtein NMR Laboratory, Advanced Analytics Section, Human Health Therapeutics Research Center, National Research Council Canada, 6100 Royalmount Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, H4P 2R2, Canada.
Feng NiDepartment of Biochemistry, McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, McGill University, 3655 Promenade Sir William Osler, Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1Y6, Canada.

Funding

Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute CCSRI 700379National Research Council of Canada NRC-HHT_53379Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada RGPIN 141019-97Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada RGPIN 327185-11
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ancient and pluripotent progranulins contain multiple repeats of a cysteine-rich sequence motif of ∼60 amino acids, called the granulin/epithelin module (GEM) with a prototypic structure of four β-hairpins zipped together by six inter-hairpin disulfide bonds. Prevalence of this disulfide-enforced structure is assessed here by an expression screening of 19 unique GEM sequences of the four progranulins in the zebrafish genome, progranulins 1, 2, A and B. While a majority of the expressed GEM peptides did not exhibit uniquely folded conformations, module AaE from progranulin A and AbB from progranulin B were found to fold into the protopypic 4-hairpin structure along with disulfide formation. Module AaE has the most-rigid three-dimensional structure with all four β-hairpins defined using high-resolution (H-

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AnimalsCell LineCell SurvivalFish ProteinsMiceNeuroprotective AgentsProgranulinsProtein FoldingRecombinant Fusion ProteinsZebrafishFish ProteinsNeuroprotective AgentsProgranulinsRecombinant Fusion Proteins3D structuregranulin/epithelin modulehairpin stack foldNMR spectroscopyprogranulinzebrafish

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PMID29732682
PMCPMC6153384

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