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ReviewThe Biochemical journal2018

The multifaceted allosteric regulation of Aurora kinase A.

Nicholas Mark Levinson

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Review in The Biochemical journal, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
38citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed, 65 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Exploring the conformational landscape of protein kinases.Current opinion in structural biology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nicholas Mark LevinsonDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, U.S.A. nml@umn.edu.
University of Minnesota · US

Funding

Kinome-Wide Spectroscopic Study of Drug Binding Site ElectrostaticsR00GM102288 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI LEVINSON, NICHOLAS MARK · 2015 to 2017
$745k
NIGMS NIH HHS R00 GM102288
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The protein kinase Aurora A (AurA) is essential for the formation of bipolar mitotic spindles in all eukaryotic organisms. During spindle assembly, AurA is activated through two different pathways operating at centrosomes and on spindle microtubules. Recent studies have revealed that these pathways operate quite differently at the molecular level, activating AurA through multifaceted changes to the structure and dynamics of the kinase domain. These advances provide an intimate atomic-level view of the finely tuned regulatory control operating in protein kinases, revealing mechanisms of allosteric cooperativity that provide graded levels of regulatory control, and a previously unanticipated mechanism for kinase activation by phosphorylation on the activation loop. Here, I review these advances in our understanding of AurA function, and discuss their implications for the use of allosteric small molecule inhibitors to address recently discovered roles of AurA in neuroblastoma, prostate cancer and melanoma.

Indexed as

Allosteric RegulationAnimalsAurora Kinase ACentromereEnzyme ActivationHumansMaleMelanomaNeoplasm ProteinsNeuroblastomaPhosphorylationProstatic NeoplasmsProtein DomainsProtein Kinase InhibitorsSpindle ApparatusAURKA protein, humanAurora Kinase ANeoplasm ProteinsProtein Kinase Inhibitorsallosteric regulationaurora kinasesprotein dynamics

Identifiers

PMID29946042
PMCPMC6018539
OpenAlexW2810527186

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