Insights into autoregulation from the crystal structure of twitchin kinase

MANY protein kinases are self-regulated by an intrasteric mechanism where part of the enzyme's structure directly inhibits the active site1,2. This inhibitory structure is called a pseudosubstrate and specific regulators are required to remove it from the active site to allow substrates access.

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