Journal articleAuthors : Reinhardt, Ronja (2023)
Phosphorylation is a ubiquitous mechanism by which signals are transduced in cells.
Protein kinases, enzymes that catalyze the phospho-transfer reaction are, themselves,
often regulated by phosphorylation. Paradoxically, however, a substantial fraction of the
more than 500 human protein kinases are capable of catalyzing their own activation
loop phosphorylation. Commonly, these kinases perform this autophosphorylation
reaction in trans, whereby transient dimerizat...