Direct contacts between extracellular membrane-proximal domains are required for VEGF receptor activation and cell signaling

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1906-1911

  Yang, Yan ^a   Xie, Peng ^a   Opatowsky, Yarden ^a   Schlessinger, Joseph ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Cancer; Phosphorylation; Protein kinases; Surface receptors

Indexed keywords

LIGAND; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RECEPTORS, PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TYROSINE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2;

EID: 76649105135     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914052107     Document Type: Article

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