Genetic Evidence That an 11 Amino Acid β-Hairpin Loop in the Cytoplasmic Domain of Band 3 Is Responsible for at Least 50% of Ankyrin Binding in Mouse Erythrocytes.
Markham N, Parry E, Stefanovic M, Gallagher P, Low P, Bodine D. Genetic Evidence That an 11 Amino Acid β-Hairpin Loop in the Cytoplasmic Domain of Band 3 Is Responsible for at Least 50% of Ankyrin Binding in Mouse Erythrocytes. Blood 2005, 106: 1659. DOI: 10.1182/blood.v106.11.1659.1659.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchΒ-hairpin loopCytoplasmic domainWild typeHuman band 3Neomycin resistance geneMembrane proteinsBand 3Mutant allelesBand 3 cytoplasmic domainResistance genesLevels of mRNARed cell membrane proteinsIntegral erythrocyte membrane proteinsSpectrin-actin cytoskeletonCre recombinase proteinDomain 3Embryonic stem cellsQuantitative RT-PCR analysisCell membrane proteinsNormal Mendelian ratioBand 3 mRNATransgenic miceAnion exchange proteinMutant erythrocytesBand 3 gene