Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Ligand-induced transmembrane conformational coupling in monomeric EGFR

  • Shwetha Srinivasan,
  • Raju Regmi,
  • Xingcheng Lin,
  • Courtney A. Dreyer,
  • Xuyan Chen,
  • Steven D. Quinn,
  • Wei He,
  • Matthew A. Coleman,
  • Kermit L. Carraway,
  • Bin Zhang,
  • Gabriela S. Schlau-Cohen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31299-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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EGFR regulates cellular processes across the animal kingdom. Here, the authors show that transmembrane conformational coupling is the first step in EGFR signaling, providing evidence for the existence of transmembrane intramolecular conformational changes in a single pass membrane protein.