WD proteins are made up of highly conserved repeating units usually ending with Trp-Asp (WD). They are found in all eukaryotes but not in prokaryotes. They regulate cellular functions, such as cell division, cell-fate determination, gene transcription, transmembrane signalling, mRNA modification and vesicle fusion. Here we define the common features of the repeating units, and criteria for grouping such proteins into functional subfamilies.
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Neer, E., Schmidt, C., Nambudripad, R. et al. The ancient regulatory-protein family of WD-repeat proteins. Nature 371, 297–300 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/371297a0
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