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Hydrophobic Core Variations Provide a Structural Framework for Tyrosine Kinase Evolution and Functional Specialization.
PLoS genetics - 1 Feb 2016
Mohanty Smita, Oruganty Krishnadev, Kwon Annie, Byrne Dominic P, Ferries Samantha, Ruan Zheng, Hanold Laura E, Katiyar Samiksha, Kennedy Eileen J, Eyers Patrick A, Kannan Natarajan
Abstract excerpt
Protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs) are a group of closely related enzymes that have evolutionarily diverged from serine/threonine kinases (STKs) to regulate pathways associated with multi-cellularity. Evolutionary divergence of PTKs from STKs has occurred through accumulation of mutations in the active site as well as in the commonly conserved hydrophobic core. While the functional significance of active site...
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