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SUBMITTER: Xu W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1800645 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xu Wanping W Yuan Xitong X Beebe Kristin K Xiang Zhexin Z Neckers Len L
Molecular and cellular biology 20061009 1
The receptor tyrosine kinase ErbB2 plays a crucial role in tumorigenesis. We showed previously that the molecular chaperone Hsp90 protects ErbB2 from proteasome-mediated degradation by binding to a short loop structure in the N-lobe of the kinase domain. Here we show that loss of Hsp90 binding correlates with enhanced ErbB2 kinase activity and its transactivating potential, concomitant with constitutively increased phosphorylation of Tyr877, located in the activation loop of the kinase domain. W ...[more]