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ArticleStructure (London, England : 1993)2018

Regulation of Kinase Activity in the Caenorhabditis elegans EGF Receptor, LET-23.

Lijun Liu, Tarjani M Thaker, Daniel M Freed, Nicole Frazier, Ketan Malhotra, Mark A Lemmon, Natalia Jura

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Article in Structure (London, England : 1993), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Lijun LiuCardiovascular Research Institute, University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Tarjani M ThakerCardiovascular Research Institute, University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Daniel M FreedDepartment of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Cancer Biology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, CT 06516, USA.
Nicole FrazierCardiovascular Research Institute, University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Ketan MalhotraDepartment of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Cancer Biology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, CT 06516, USA.
Mark A LemmonDepartment of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Cancer Biology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, CT 06516, USA.
Natalia JuraCardiovascular Research Institute, University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA. Electronic address: natalia.jura@ucsf.edu.
University of California, San Francisco · USYale Cancer Center · US

Funding

Understanding EGF receptor activation by growth factors and oncogenic mutationsR01CA198164 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI FERGUSON, KATHRYN M, LEMMON, MARK A · 2015 to 2024
$5.2M
Structural and Functional Studies of HER Receptor Tyrosine KinasesR01GM109176 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI JURA, NATALIA · 2014 to 2018
$1.8M
Deciphering Molecular Determinants of Activation in the HER2/HER3 Receptor ComplexF32CA216928 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI THAKER, TARJANI MAHESH · 2017 to 2018
$86k
NCI NIH HHS F32 CA216928NCI NIH HHS R01 CA198164NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM109176
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the active HER receptor dimers, kinases play distinct roles; one is the catalytically active kinase and the other is its allosteric activator. This specialization enables signaling by the catalytically inactive HER3, which functions exclusively as an allosteric activator upon heterodimerization with other HER receptors. It is unclear whether the allosteric activation mechanism evolved before HER receptors functionally specialized. We determined the crystal structure of the kinase domain of the only EGF receptor in Caenorhabditis elegans, LET-23. Our structure of a non-human EGFR kinase reveals autoinhibitory features conserved in the human counterpart. Strikingly, mutations within the putative allosteric dimer interface abrogate activity of the isolated LET-23 kinase and of the full-length receptor despite these regions being only partially conserved with human EGFR. Our results indicate that ancestral EGFRs have built-in features that poise them for allosteric activation that could facilitate emergence of the catalytically dead, yet functional, orthologs.

Indexed as

AnimalsCaenorhabditis elegansCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsDimerizationErbB ReceptorsPhosphorylationPhosphotransferasesSignal TransductionCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsErbB Receptorslet-23 protein, C elegansPhosphotransferasesallosteric kinase activationasymmetric dimerizationEGFRERBB receptorsHER receptorskinase activationkinase structureLET-23receptor tyrosine kinase signaling

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PMID29358026
PMCPMC5803352
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