Molecular basis for multimerization in the activation of the epidermal growth factor receptor

Y Huang, S Bharill, D Karandur, SM Peterson, M Marita… - elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is activated by dimerization, but activation also
generates higher-order multimers, whose nature and function are poorly understood. We …

[HTML][HTML] Kinase-mediated quasi-dimers of EGFR

EM Bublil, G Pines, G Patel, G Fruhwirth, T Ng… - The FASEB …, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Ligand-induced dimerization of the epidermal growth factor receptor (ErbB-1/EGFR)
involves conformational changes that expose an extracellular dimerization interface …

Ligand-independent dimer formation of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a step separable from ligand-induced EGFR signaling

X Yu, KD Sharma, T Takahashi… - Molecular biology of …, 2002 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Dimerization and phosphorylation of the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor (EGFR) are
the initial and essential events of EGF-induced signal transduction. However, the …

Mechanisms for kinase-mediated dimerization of the epidermal growth factor receptor

C Lu, LZ Mi, T Schürpf, T Walz, TA Springer - Journal of Biological …, 2012 - ASBMB
We study a mechanism by which dimerization of the EGF receptor (EGFR) cytoplasmic
domain is transmitted to the ectodomain. Therapeutic and other small molecule antagonists …

EGFR oligomerization organizes kinase-active dimers into competent signalling platforms

SR Needham, SK Roberts, A Arkhipov… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signalling is activated by ligand-induced receptor
dimerization. Notably, ligand binding also induces EGFR oligomerization, but the structures …

Exploring higher-order EGFR oligomerisation and phosphorylation—a combined experimental and theoretical approach

N Kozer, D Barua, S Orchard, EC Nice… - Molecular …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) kinase is generally considered to be activated
by either ligand-induced dimerisation or a ligand-induced conformational change within pre …

Epidermal growth factor receptor dimerization and activation require ligand-induced conformational changes in the dimer interface

JP Dawson, MB Berger, CC Lin… - … and cellular biology, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
Structural studies have shown that ligand-induced epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)
dimerization involves major domain rearrangements that expose a critical dimerization arm …

The EGFR family: not so prototypical receptor tyrosine kinases

MA Lemmon, J Schlessinger… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2014 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) was among the first receptor tyrosine kinases
(RTKs) for which ligand binding was studied and for which the importance of ligand-induced …

Complex relationship between ligand binding and dimerization in the epidermal growth factor receptor

NJ Bessman, A Bagchi, KM Ferguson, MA Lemmon - Cell reports, 2014 - cell.com
The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) plays pivotal roles in development and is
mutated or overexpressed in several cancers. Despite recent advances, the complex …

Architecture and membrane interactions of the EGF receptor

A Arkhipov, Y Shan, R Das, NF Endres, MP Eastwood… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Dimerization-driven activation of the intracellular kinase domains of the epidermal growth
factor receptor (EGFR) upon extracellular ligand binding is crucial to cellular pathways …