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A transmembrane leucine zipper is required for activation of the dimeric receptor tyrosine kinase DDR1.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 11 Aug 2006
Noordeen Nafeesa A, Carafoli Federico, Hohenester Erhard, Horton Michael A, Leitinger Birgit
Abstract excerpt
Receptor tyrosine kinases of the discoidin domain family, DDR1 and DDR2, are activated by different types of collagen and play important roles in cell adhesion, migration, proliferation, and matrix remodeling. In a previous study, we found that collagen binding by the discoidin domain receptors (DDRs) requires dimerization of their extracellular domains (Leitinger, B. (2003) J. Biol. Chem. 278, 16761-16769),...
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