Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Survey of solution dynamics in Src kinase reveals allosteric cross talk between the ligand binding and regulatory sites

  • Michael Tong,
  • Jeff G. Pelton,
  • Michelle L. Gill,
  • Weibing Zhang,
  • Francis Picart,
  • Markus A. Seeliger

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02240-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Src is a prototypical signaling non-receptor protein tyrosine kinase that interconverts between distinct conformations. Here the authors use variants of the kinase-inhibitor dasatinib to define three specific conformational states of the Src kinase and shed insight on the effect of conformation-specific inhibitors on Src dynamics.