The lipocalins are a family of proteins which transport small hydrophobic molecules such as steroids, bilins, retinoids, and lipids. They share limited regions of sequence homology and a common tertiary structure architecture. This is an eight stranded antiparallel beta-barrel with a repeated + 1 topology enclosing an internal ligand binding site....
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<protein> Family of proteins that transport small, hydrophobic molecules, such as retinol, porphyrins, odourants. Characterised by two orthogonally stranded _ sheets. ... Examples: _ 1 microglobulin, purpurin, orosomucoid. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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Family of proteins that transport small, hydrophobic molecules, such as retinol, porphyrins, odorants. Characterized by two orthogonally-stranded beta sheets. Examples: alpha-1-microglobulin, purpurin, orosomucoid.
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