Tyrosine Phosphorylation/Dephosphorylation and Downstream Signalling [Paperback]

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Tyrosine Phosphorylation/Dephosphorylation and Downstream Signalling, held at Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, September 1-12, 1992I. Protein Tyrosine Kinases and Protein Tyrosine Phosphate Phosphatases.- Protein tyrosine phosphorylation-dephosphorylation and cell signaling.- Regulation and functions of src-family kinases: An update.- Mitogen-activated signalling pathways.- Studies of the very early responses of a receptor tyrosine kinase to growth factor binding and their application to the purification and identification of proteins that are tyrosine phosphorylated in the growth factor response.- The role of P21ras in cell signalling.- The HGF/SF receptor kinase: Structure and function.- RET/ptc and TRK oncogenes in papillary thyroid carcinoma.- Structure-function analysis of hepatocyte growth factor and its tyrosine-ldnase receptor c-Met.- Oncogenic activation of the Met/HGF receptor tyrosine kinase is promoted by leucine zipper mediated dimerization.- Specificity of the truncated form of human T-cell protein tyrosine phosphatase toward phosphorylated synthetic peptides.- Regulation of tyrosine protein phosphatases by binding to phospholipids and covalent modification.- Localization-dependent regulation of lymphocyte tyrosine phosphatases.- Protein tyrosine phosphatases in the nematode ascaris suum.- Non-radioactive determination of phosphotyrosine phosphatase (PTPase) activity.- New protein tyrosine phosphatases from vascular smooth muscle cells: Transcript levels in tissues and in cultured cells.- Recombinant CSK expressed in E. Coli is phosphorylated on tyrosine residue(s) and undergoes in vitro phosphorylation.- Polysine activates a splenic tyrosine protein kinase encoded by the fgr protooncogene.- Protein phosphorylation in the signal transduction of the neuropeptide bombesin in swiss 3T3 cells.- Growth hormone (GH) increases lipoprotein lipase mRNA in cells transfected with the rat GH receptor cDNA.- II. ThelóT