ArticleBiochimica et biophysica acta. Biomembranes2020
Revisiting a controversy: The effect of EGF on EGFR dimer stability.
Article in Biochimica et biophysica acta. Biomembranes, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- P120 catenin potentiates constitutive E-cadherin dimerization at the plasma membrane and regulates trans binding.Current biology : CB · 2021Article
- Interactions between Ligand-Bound EGFR and VEGFR2.Journal of molecular biology · 2021Article
- Probing Membrane Protein Association Using Concentration-Dependent Number and Brightness.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2021Article
- The Biased Ligands NGF and NT-3 Differentially Stabilize Trk-A Dimers.Biophysical journal · 2021Article
- EGFR forms ligand-independent oligomers that are distinct from the active state.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2020Article
- Quantifying the strength of heterointeractions among receptor tyrosine kinases from different subfamilies: Implications for cell signaling.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2020Article
- The transition model of RTK activation: A quantitative framework for understanding RTK signaling and RTK modulator activity.Cytokine & growth factor reviews · 2019Review
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Abstract
EGFR is a receptor tyrosine kinase that plays a critical role in cell proliferation, differentiation, survival and migration. Its activating ligand, EGF, has long been believed to stabilize the EGFR dimer. Two research studies aimed at quantitative measurements of EGFR dimerization, however, have led to contradicting conclusions and have questioned this view. Given the controversy, here we sought to measure the dimerization of EGFR in the absence and in the presence of saturating EGF concentrations, and to tease out the effect of ligand on dimer stability, using a FRET-based quantitative method. Our measurements show that the dissociation constant is decreased ~150 times due to ligand binding, indicative of significant dimer stabilization. In addition, our measurements demonstrate that EGF binding induces a conformational change in the EGFR dimer.
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