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- noun biochemistry A
hydrolase responsible forendocytosis ineukaryotic cells
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The structure of the protein, called dynamin, is helping to answer many longstanding questions about how vesicles form, advancing knowledge of a process critical to cell survival.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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I think he has something scandalous on the MorphoDyke / Dilliam Wembski dynamin duo.
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But it is perhaps better to place a comma after [Greek: _dynamin_], and translate, 'after making ready ... soldiers, ships, cavalry -- the entire force complete -- you bind them,' &c.
The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes 1912
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But dynamin is a large molecule, containing almost 1,000 amino acids, making it difficult to crystallize.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Vesicle formation probably involves repeated cycles of collar assembly, GTP binding, GTPase domain dimerization, conversion of GTP to GDP, and disassembly of the dynamin collar.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Ehrlich M, Massol R, Boucrot E, Brunner C, et al. (2006) Dynasore, a cell-permeable inhibitor of dynamin.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Audrun Utskarpen et al. 2010
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Mettlen M, Yarar D, Jaqaman K, Jaqaman H, et al. (2009) Cargo and dynamin regulate clathrin-coated pit maturation.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Audrun Utskarpen et al. 2010
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But they knew that at least one molecule, dynamin, played a starring role.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Researchers knew that dynamin is found in cells as a group of four molecules, or a tetramer.
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Like a handful of Tootsie Pops ™, dynamin tetramers are held together by long stalk regions with the GTPase domains protruding from their tops.
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