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Identification of a region within the ErbB2/HER2 intracellular domain that is necessary for ligand-independent association.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 9 Aug 2002
Penuel Elicia, Akita Robert W, Sliwkowski Mark X
Abstract excerpt
Ligand-independent ErbB2 activation occurs principally by two distinct mechanisms: overexpression and mutation. Overexpression of ErbB2 at the plasma membrane drives receptor self-association in a concentration-dependent manner, which in turn leads to constitutive receptor activation. Subsets of human breast cancers contain a molecular alteration that leads to erbB2 gene amplification and subsequent protein...
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