Structures of human Bruton's tyrosine kinase in active and inactive conformations suggest a mechanism of activation for TEC family kinases.
Marcotte, D.J., Liu, Y.T., Arduini, R.M., Hession, C.A., Miatkowski, K., Wildes, C.P., Cullen, P.F., Hong, V., Hopkins, B.T., Mertsching, E., Jenkins, T.J., Romanowski, M.J., Baker, D.P., Silvian, L.F.(2010) Protein Sci 19: 429-439
- PubMed: 20052711 
- DOI: 10.1002/pro.321
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3GEN, 3K54 - PubMed Abstract: 
Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK), a member of the TEC family of kinases, plays a crucial role in B-cell maturation and mast cell activation. Although the structures of the unphosphorylated mouse BTK kinase domain and the unphosphorylated and phosphorylated kinase domains of human ITK are known, understanding the kinase selectivity profiles of BTK inhibitors has been hampered by the lack of availability of a high resolution, ligand-bound BTK structure ...