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Assembly of PRR-containing receptors on scaffolds: a model for imidazoline I(1)-receptor action
I F Musgrave1, F C Dehle, J Piletz
1Department of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia. ian.musgrave@adelaide.edu.au
Abstract:
IRAS, a putative clone of the I(1)-imidazoline receptor, possesses a proline-rich region (PRR) motif, which might interact with SH3 regions on tyrosine kinases, and an integrin-binding motif. Receptors with a PRR motif can generally assemble onto multi-element signaling complexes (eg., the beta(3)-receptor on the EGF receptor) and thereby modulate signal transduction. Integrins serve as scaffolds for multi-element signaling complexes, similar to that assembled with the EGF receptor. It is therefore possible that IRAS signals through a complex with other receptors.
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