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ArticleCell chemical biology2018

Mechanism of Allosteric Coupling into and through the Plasma Membrane by EGFR.

Julie K L Sinclair, Allison S Walker, Amy E Doerner, Alanna Schepartz

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Article in Cell chemical biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Beyond the membrane: rethinking EGFR signaling in physiology and cancer.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2026
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  3. EGFR: New Insights on Its Activation and Mutation in Tumor and Tumor Immunotherapy.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  4. Structure and organization of full-length epidermal growth factor receptor in extracellular vesicles by cryo-electron tomography.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  17. Discoidin domain receptors: Micro insights into macro assemblies.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular cell research · 2019
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  18. Unique transmembrane domain interactions differentially modulate integrin αvβ3 and αIIbβ3 function.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Julie K L SinclairDepartment of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8107, USA.
Allison S WalkerDepartment of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8107, USA.
Amy E DoernerDepartment of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8107, USA.
Alanna SchepartzDepartment of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8107, USA; Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8103, USA. Electronic address: alanna.schepartz@yale.edu.

Funding

PREDOCTORAL PROGRAM IN BIOPHYSICST32GM008283 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI XIONG, YONG · 1988 to 2022
$10.5M
Predoc Training at the Interface Chemistry and BiologyT32GM067543 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI CRAWFORD, JASON MICHAEL · 2003 to 2022
$7.4M
Fluorescence tools that illuminate biology and inspire translationR35GM134963 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI Alanna Schepartz · 2020 to 2026
$4.7M
Surveying protein partnerships and assembly with bipartite tetracysteine displayR01GM083257 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI SCHEPARTZ, ALANNA · 2008 to 2018
$3.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM083257NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM134963NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008283NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM067543
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) interacts through its extracellular domain with seven different growth factors. These factors induce different structures within the cytoplasmic juxtamembrane (JM) segment of the dimeric receptor and propagate different growth factor-dependent signals to the cell interior. How this process occurs is unknown. Here we apply diverse experimental and computational tools to show that growth factor identity is encoded by the EGFR transmembrane (TM) helix into discrete helix dimer populations that differ in both cross-location and cross-angle. Helix dimers with smaller cross-angles at multiple cross locations are decoded to induce an EGF-type coiled coil in the adjacent JM, whereas helix dimers with larger cross-angles at fewer cross locations induce the TGF-α-type coiled coil. We propose an updated model for how conformational coupling across multiple EGFR domains results in growth factor-specific information transfer, and demonstrate that this model applies to both EGFR and the related receptor ErbB2.

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Allosteric RegulationCell MembraneErb-b2 Receptor Tyrosine KinasesErbB ReceptorsHumansEGFR protein, humanErb-b2 Receptor Tyrosine KinasesErbB Receptorsallosterybiased agonismcancerepidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)information transferjuxtamembrane domainligand-induced dimerizationreceptor tyrosine kinase (RTK)signal transductiontransmembrane domain

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PMID29731426
PMCPMC6054568

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