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Reentrant loops are an important structural motif in alpha-helical transmembrane proteins. A reentrant loop is a structural motif that goes only halfway through the membrane and then turns back to the side from which it originates. <ref>PMID:20544377</ref></br> | |||
<ref>PMID:20544377</ref></br> | They were first seen in the aquaporin water channel. <ref>PMID: 17579561</ref>. | ||
<ref>PMID: 17579561</ref> | In aquaporin, two re-entrant helix-forming loops stack on top of each other <ref>PMID: 35163313</ref>. | ||
<ref>PMID: 35163313</ref> | |||
Reentrant loops seem to be most commonly found in ion and water channel proteins. | |||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
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*[[Aquaporin]] | *[[Aquaporin]] | ||
*[[1bl8]] | *[[1bl8]] | ||
* [[1XFH]] - "The glutamate transporter homolog (1XFH) contains both disrupted | * [[1XFH]] - "The glutamate transporter homolog (1XFH) contains both disrupted transmembrane helices and reentrant loops." | ||
transmembrane helices and reentrant loops." | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
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