title: Predicted tyk2 protein contains two tandem protein kinase domains.
abstract: Tyk2 was recently described as an 1187 amino acid protein with a putative protein-tyrosine kinase domain near its C-terminus and no similarity to other proteins in the approximately 900 amino acids preceding the kinase domain. I report here, however, that tyk2 contains an additional protein kinase domain, and that the two tandem kinase domains are preceded by an SH2-like, putative regulatory domain.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Genetics, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Charlestown 02129.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bernards
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000737:chemistry*; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D053634:TYK2 Kinase
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; D053634:TYK2 Kinase; C070139:TYK2 protein, human