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A monkey wrench in the kinase machine

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology volume 14, pages 1120–1121 (2007)Cite this article

Last year Zhang, Kuriyan and colleagues demonstrated that an asymmetric dimer interaction between EGF receptor kinase domains is a key element of receptor activation. They now show that a cellular protein that inhibits receptor activity targets this dimer interface, not only uncovering an important regulatory mechanism but also opening a new route to therapeutic kinase inhibition.

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Figure 1: Schematic model of EGFR activation.
Figure 2: Schematic model of inhibition of the EGFR kinase by Mig6.

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