... [19], and NMRspectroscopic data of p25a homologs from mice,Caenorhabditis elegans and humans [2 0–2 2] demon-strate a folded central core and unfolded N- and C-ter-minal extensions of 45 and ... [28]. The instability of DA at the neutral pH of the cytosol causes the forma-tion of toxic aminochromes, and these species are notformed when DA is protonated at the acidic pH of thestorage vesicles. ... 45 and 70 amino acid residues, respectively. We constructed two deletion mutants:p25aDN, which lacked N-terminal residues 3–4 3, and p25aDC, which lacked C-terminal residues 15 6–2 19(Fig. 2A)....