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Dictionary » H » Heterodimers Heterodimersheterodimer (Science: biochemistry) a dimer in which the two subunits are different. One of the best known examples is tubulin that is found as an _ tubulin/_ tubulin dimer. Heterodimers are relatively common and it may be that the arrangement has the advantage that, for example: several different binding subunits may interact with a conserved signalling subunit.
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Results from our forumProteins... that later associate to form dimers. If you look at it as a pseudo-Punnet square, then 25% of the dimers are of each homodimer and 50% are heterodimers (alpha associates with beta or beta associates with alpha). There are four possible associations, two of them are the same heterodimer, ...
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See entire post ineternal skeletonIf we want we can all add things: For example: microtubules are composed of tubulin which is composed of 2 heterodimers: alpha-tubulin and beta-tubulin that takes place at low calcium concentrations and is facilitated by some microtubule associated proteins. Other microtubule ...
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