Concentration of agglutinins on cell surface after expression upregulation by pheromone

Value 1e-3 M
Organism Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Reference Zhao H, Shen ZM, Kahn PC, Lipke PN. Interaction of alpha-agglutinin and a-agglutinin, Saccharomyces cerevisiae sexual cell adhesion molecules. J Bacteriol. 2001 May183(9):2874-80.PubMed ID11292808
Primary Source Shen, Z. M., L. Wang, H. Zhao, J. Kurjan, J. Pike, and P. N. Lipke. Delineation of functional regions within the subunits of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell adhesion molecule a-agglutinin. J Biol Chem. 2001 May 11276(19):15768-75PubMed ID11278672
Comments a-Agglutinin binds its glycoprotein ligand a-agglutinin, expressed on the surface of cells of mating-type a. Binding is tight, with a Kd near 10-9 M and an extremely slow dissociation rate
Entered by Uri M
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