Receptors aggregation

Like all immunoreceptor family members, FceRI lacks intrinsic tyrosine kinase activity. IgE and antigen-induced crosshnking of FceRI initiates a complex series of phosphate transfer events via the activation of non-receptor Src, Syk and Tec family protein tyrosine kinases (fig. 1). The Src family kinase Lyn, which associates with the FceRI p subunit in mast cells, transphosphorylates neighboring FceRI ITAMs after receptor aggregation [7, 26]. Once phosphorylated, the p chain ITAM binds to the SH2 domain of additional Lyn molecules, while the phosphorylated y chain ITAM recruits Syk to the receptor complex, where it is activated by both autophosphorylation and phosphorylation by Lyn [2, 7,15, 26]. 

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The RAS protein is activated in response to ligand-induced receptor aggregation at the inner surface of the plasma membrane where complexes of signaling molecules accumulate to attain a critical level for signal transduction (Figure 2). Activating mutations in RAS, of the type found in human tumors, bypass the need for... 

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