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Goα
Goα
English
Noun
Goα (uncountable)
- (biochemistry, uncountable) a type of GTP-binding protein subunit belonging to the Giα family, expressed primarily in neural cell types
- 1999. Yu, Bo. "An engineered mutant of G protein α subunit that binds xanthine nucleotide and not guanine nucleotide", Ph.D. thesis, California Institute of Technology.
- "The Giα family name implies that some of its members can inhibit adenylyl cyclase upon activation, and includes three Giα isoforms, Goα (a predominately neural α subunit, two different splicing variants),..."
- 1999. Yu, Bo. "An engineered mutant of G protein α subunit that binds xanthine nucleotide and not guanine nucleotide", Ph.D. thesis, California Institute of Technology.