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BMC BIOPHYSICS
Volume 6, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/2046-1682-6-7
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- National Institutes of Health [GM88187]
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A recent study by Dietz et al. using single-molecule fluorescence microscopy techniques demonstrates that, in the absence of the ligand InlB, the MET receptor exists as both a monomer and a dimer on the cell membrane, and addition of the ligand leads to increased MET dimerization. Under the crowded conditions of the cell membrane, dimer formation may be a common phenomenon for cell surface receptors. Ligand binding to both monomeric and dimeric receptors may provide parallel routes to receptor activation.
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