Abstract
Alanine insertions into the glycophorin A transmembrane helix are found to disrupt helix-helix dimerization in a way that is fully consistent with earlier saturation mutagenesis data, suggesting that Ala-insertion scanning can be used to rapidly map the approximate location of structurally and/or functionally important segments in transmembrane helices.
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