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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2019

A reevaluation of the spleen tyrosine kinase (SYK) activation mechanism.

My S Mansueto, Abigail Reens, Larissa Rakhilina, An Chi, Bo-Sheng Pan, J Richard Miller

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 58 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. An electrostatic network with strong connectivity is a phospho-sensor for regulating affinity of Syk-receptor association.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  12. Small Molecule Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors (TKIs) for Glioblastoma Treatment.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  17. TULA Proteins in Men, Mice, Hens, and Lice: Welcome to the Family.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

My S MansuetoFrom the Departments of Pharmacology and.
Abigail ReensFrom the Departments of Pharmacology and.
Larissa RakhilinaFrom the Departments of Pharmacology and.
An ChiChemical Biology, Merck & Co., Inc., Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
Bo-Sheng PanFrom the Departments of Pharmacology and.
J Richard MillerFrom the Departments of Pharmacology and james.miller2@merck.com.ORCID 0000-0002-8836-6087
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA (United States) · USMercer (Czechia) · CZ

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spleen tyrosine kinase (SYK) is a signaling node in many immune pathways and comprises two tandem Src homology (SH) 2 domains, an SH2-kinase linker, and a C-terminal tyrosine kinase domain. Two prevalent models of SYK activation exist. The "OR-gate" model contends that SYK can be fully activated by phosphorylation or binding of its SH2 domains to a dual-phosphorylated immune-receptor tyrosine-based activation motif (ppITAM). An alternative model proposes that SYK activation requires ppITAM binding and phosphorylation of the SH2-kinase linker by a SRC family kinase such as LYN proto-oncogene, SRC family tyrosine kinase (LYN). To evaluate these two models, we generated directly comparable unphosphorylated (upSYK) and phosphorylated (pSYK) proteins with or without an N-terminal glutathione

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Models, ChemicalAmino Acid MotifsEnzyme ActivationHumansPhosphorylationProto-Oncogene Massrc-Family Kinasessrc Homology DomainsSyk Kinaselyn protein-tyrosine kinaseMAS1 protein, humanProto-Oncogene Massrc-Family KinasesSyk KinaseSYK protein, humanautophosphorylationcell signalingconformational changeenzyme activationenzyme kineticsimmunityITAM (immune-receptor tyrosine activation motif)non-receptor tyrosine kinase (nRTK)phosphorylationspleen tyrosine kinase (SYK)tonic signalling

Identifiers

PMID30923129
PMCPMC6514621
OpenAlexW2926607850

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