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SUBMITTER: Cunningham ME
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1171074 | biostudies-other | 1998 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Cunningham M E ME Greene L A LA
The EMBO journal 19981201 24
Mechanisms regulating transit of receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) from inactive to active states are incompletely described, but require autophosphorylation of tyrosine(s) within a kinase domain 'activation loop'. Here, we employ functional biological assays with mutated TRK receptors to assess a 'switch' model for RTK activation. In this model: (i) ligand binding stimulates activation loop tyrosine phosphorylation; (ii) these phosphotyrosines form specific charge pairs with nearby basic residue ...[more]