title: Understanding the specificity of receptor tyrosine kinases signaling.
abstract: Tyrosine kinase receptors (RTKs) represent a large family of transmembrane proteins,1,2 present in all metazoans, whose function is to transduce signals from the extracellular milieu to the inside of the cells. The common features of this protein family are: the extracellular domain, devoted to the binding to the specific receptor ligand, a single transmembrane region, and an intracellular chain featuring the conserved protein tyrosine kinase domain. RTKs control many aspects of cellular physiology both during development and in adult life, such as cell proliferation, migration, survival and differentiation.1.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche; Università degli Studi di Firenze; Firenze Italy.
authors.forename: Alina
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: De Donatis
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cirri
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