ArticleCell reports2022
Extensive conformational and physical plasticity protects HER2-HER3 tumorigenic signaling.
Article in Cell reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Human epidermal growth factor receptor 3-targeted near-infrared photoimmunotherapy in a xenograft mouse model of breast cancer.BMC cancer · 2026Article
- MicroRNA-mediated modulation of cancer-associated fibroblasts in HER2-positive breast tumor microenvironment: a comprehensive review.Discover oncology · 2026Review
- Lipid rafts, caveolae, and epidermal growth factor receptor family: friends or foes?Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2024Review
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- Resistance to Trastuzumab.Cancers · 2022Review
- Inactivating Amplified HER2: Challenges, Dilemmas, and Future Directions.Cancer research · 2022Article
- Targetable HER3 functions driving tumorigenic signaling in HER2-amplified cancers.Cell reports · 2022Article
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- Erratum issued
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Abstract
Surface-targeting biotherapeutic agents have been successful in treating HER2-amplified cancers through immunostimulation or chemodelivery but have failed to produce effective inhibitors of constitutive HER2-HER3 signaling. We report an extensive structure-function analysis of this tumor driver, revealing complete uncoupling of intracellular signaling and tumorigenic function from regulation or constraints from their extracellular domains (ECDs). The canonical HER3 ECD conformational changes and exposure of the dimerization interface are nonessential, and the entire ECDs of HER2 and HER3 are redundant for tumorigenic signaling. Restricting the proximation of partner ECDs with bulk and steric clash through extremely disruptive receptor engineering leaves tumorigenic signaling unperturbed. This is likely due to considerable conformational flexibilities across the span of these receptor molecules and substantial undulations in the plane of the plasma membrane, none of which had been foreseen as impediments to targeting strategies. The massive overexpression of HER2 functionally and physically uncouples intracellular signaling from extracellular constraints.
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