Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

The architecture of EGFR’s basal complexes reveals autoinhibition mechanisms in dimers and oligomers

  • Laura C. Zanetti-Domingues,
  • Dimitrios Korovesis,
  • Sarah R. Needham,
  • Christopher J. Tynan,
  • Shiori Sagawa,
  • Selene K. Roberts,
  • Antonija Kuzmanic,
  • Elena Ortiz-Zapater,
  • Purvi Jain,
  • Rob C. Roovers,
  • Alireza Lajevardipour,
  • Paul M. P. van Bergen en Henegouwen,
  • George Santis,
  • Andrew H. A. Clayton,
  • David T. Clarke,
  • Francesco L. Gervasio,
  • Yibing Shan,
  • David E. Shaw,
  • Daniel J. Rolfe,
  • Peter J. Parker,
  • Marisa L. Martin-Fernandez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06632-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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To prevent ligand-independent dimerisation the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is autoinhibited by an extracellular dimer interaction. Here, the authors use several imaging technologies and simulations to provide structural insights on the inactive species and on how intracellular mutations circumvent the autoinhibition of the basal state.