... of this type exhibit the predictedamount of binding only if the heterodimer is tethered by the wild-type partner. By contrast, we found that, if the heterodimer is tethered to the resin by the ... employing solubleforms of the receptor [25,26,34], indicates that the ectodomain of the receptor is capable of dimer forma-tion in the absence of ligand.Affinity cross-linking of [125I]IGF-II to ... between repeats 11 and 13because repeat 11 is capable of binding IGF-II even in the absence of repeat 13 [20,22]. These data suggestthat the failure to tether the tail of the extracyto-plasmic...