Cracking the Molecular Origin of Intrinsic Tyrosine Kinase Activity through Analysis of Pathogenic Gain-of-Function Mutations.
Chen, H., Huang, Z., Dutta, K., Blais, S., Neubert, T.A., Li, X., Cowburn, D., Traaseth, N.J., Mohammadi, M.(2013) Cell Rep 4: 376-384
- PubMed: 23871672 
- DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2013.06.025
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- PubMed Abstract: 
The basal (ligand-independent) kinase activity of receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) promotes trans-phosphorylation on activation loop tyrosines upon ligand-induced receptor dimerization, thus upregulating intrinsic kinase activity and triggering intra ...