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- * Receptor tyrosine kinase class V signatures *
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- A number of growth factors stimulate mitogenesis by interacting with a family
- of cell surface receptors which possess an intrinsic, ligand-sensitive,
- protein tyrosine kinase activity [1]. These receptor tyrosine kinases (RTK)
- all share the same topology: an extracellular ligand-binding domain, a single
- transmembrane region and a cytoplasmic kinase domain. However they can be
- classified into at least five groups on the basis of sequence similarities.
- The extracellular domain of class V RTK's consist of a region of about 300
- amino acids, amongst which 16 conserved cysteines probably involved in
- disulfide bonds; this region is followed by two copies of a fibronectin type
- III domain. The receptors currently known to belong to class V are [2,3]:
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- - Human receptor Eck
- - Rat receptor Elk and its probable homolog in chicken, Cek5.
- - Human receptor Eph.
- - Human receptor Hek, known as Mek4 in mouse, and Cek4 in chicken.
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- Currently, the nature of the ligands for these receptors is not yet known. We
- developed two signature patterns for this class of RTK's, which each include
- some of the conserved cysteine residues.
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- -Consensus pattern: [GA](2)-C-[LIVM]-[SA]-[LIVM](2)-[SA]-V-R-V-[FY](2)-x-[KR]-
- C-P
- [The two C's are probably involved in disulfide bonds]
- -Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL.
- -Other sequence(s) detected in SWISS-PROT: NONE.
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- -Consensus pattern: C-x(2)-[DE]-G-E-W-[LIVM](2)-P-[LIVM]-G-x-C-x-C-x(2)-G-Y-E
- [The three C's are probably involved in disulfide bonds]
- -Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL.
- -Other sequence(s) detected in SWISS-PROT: NONE.
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- -Last update: December 1992 / First entry.
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- [ 1] Yarden Y., Ullrich A.
- Annu. Rev. Biochem. 57:443-478(1988).
- [ 2] Sajjadi F.G., Pasquale E.B., Subramani S.
- New Biol. 3:769-778(1991).
- [ 3] Wicks I.P., Wilkinson D., Salvaris E., Boyd A.W.
- Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 89:1611-1615(1992).
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