TY - JOUR AU - AB - THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY Vol. 277, No. 43, Issue of October 25, pp. 40212–40221, 2002 © 2002 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc. Printed in U.S.A. Dimerization of the Type 4 cAMP-specific Phosphodiesterases Is Mediated by the Upstream Conserved Regions (UCRs)* Received for publication, April 15, 2002, and in revised form, July 23, 2002 Published, JBC Papers in Press, August 12, 2002, DOI 10.1074/jbc.M203585200 Wito Richter and Marco Conti‡ From the Division of Reproductive Biology, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5317 perfamily of isoenzymes that are divided into 11 PDE families The cAMP-specific PDE4 family consists of four genes, each expressed as several splice variants. These vari- on the basis of their sequence homology and enzymatic prop- ants are termed long and short forms depending on the erties (2). They all share a highly conserved catalytic domain of presence or absence of two unique N-terminal domains about 270 amino acids fused to additional N- and/or C-terminal called upstream conserved regions 1 and 2 (UCR1 and 2). sequences that contain distinct domains unique to the mem- UCR1 and UCR2 have been shown to form a module bers of TI - Dimerization of the Type 4 cAMP-specific Phosphodiesterases Is Mediated by the Upstream Conserved Regions (UCRs) JF - Journal of Biological Chemistry DO - 10.1074/jbc.m203585200 DA - 2002-10-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/dimerization-of-the-type-4-camp-specific-phosphodiesterases-is-2jeNCF0SKf DP - DeepDyve ER -