Phosphotyrosine signaling: evolving a new cellular communication system.

Lim, Wendell A; Pawson, Tony · Cell · 2010

review · Level V

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Abstract

Tyrosine phosphorylation controls many cellular functions. Yet the three-part toolkit that regulates phosphotyrosine signaling-tyrosine kinases, phosphotyrosine phosphatases, and Src Homology 2 (SH2) domains-is a relatively new innovation. Genomic analyses reveal how this revolutionary signaling system may have originated and why it rapidly became critical to metazoans.

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