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The juxtamembrane region of the EGF receptor functions as an activation domain.
Molecular cell - 26 Jun 2009
Red Brewer Monica, Choi Sung Hee, Alvarado Diego, Moravcevic Katarina, Pozzi Ambra, Lemmon Mark A, Carpenter Graham
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In several growth factor receptors, the intracellular juxtamembrane (JM) region participates in autoinhibitory interactions that must be disrupted for tyrosine kinase activation. Using alanine scanning mutagenesis and crystallographic approaches, we define a domain within the JM region of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) that instead plays an activating--rather than autoinhibitory--role. Mutations in...
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