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Structural basis of Rad53 kinase activation by dimerization and activation segment exchange.
Cellular signalling - 1 Sept 2014
Wybenga-Groot Leanne E, Ho Cynthia S, Sweeney Frédéric D, Ceccarelli Derek F, McGlade C Jane, Durocher Daniel, Sicheri Frank
Abstract excerpt
The protein kinase Rad53 is a key regulator of the DNA damage checkpoint in budding yeast. Its human ortholog, CHEK2, is mutated in familial breast cancer and mediates apoptosis in response to genotoxic stress. Autophosphorylation of Rad53 at residue Thr354 located in the kinase activation segment is essential for Rad53 activation. In this study, we assessed the requirement of kinase domain dimerization and the...
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