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Complex relationship between ligand binding and dimerization in the epidermal growth factor receptor.
Cell reports - 20 Nov 2014
Bessman Nicholas J, Bagchi Atrish, Ferguson Kathryn M, Lemmon Mark A
Abstract excerpt
The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) plays pivotal roles in development and is mutated or overexpressed in several cancers. Despite recent advances, the complex allosteric regulation of EGFR remains incompletely understood. Through efforts to understand why the negative cooperativity observed for intact EGFR is lost in studies of its isolated extracellular region (ECR), we uncovered unexpected...
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