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This book devotes a chapter to each RTK family and the multiple receptors within each family, thoroughly covering all of the RTKs. The chapters all follow the same structure, presenting this essential information in an accessible and user-friendly format. Each chapter covers one specific family of receptors and begins with a general introduction to that family and a comprehensive discussion of that receptor's family in development and human disease. Following are in-depth analyses of each family's receptors with discussions on the gene, protein, ligands, activation, and signaling pathways along with discussion of receptor processing and signal attenuation. Further, cross talk with other receptors systems, post-translational modification and specific unique characteristics to each RTK are discussed. Because it isolates and explains each family, this book is an essential companion volume to Receptor Tyrosine Kinases: Structure, Functions and Role in Human Disease, by the same authors, which talks about RTKs more generally and without the family-by-family detail.
List of contents
Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase (ALK) Receptor Tyrosine Kinase (RTK) Family.- The TAM Receptor Family .- DDR Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Family.- EGFR/ERBB Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Family.- Eph Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Family.- Receptor Tyrosine Kinase textbook - Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor (FGFR).- Insulin/IGF1 Receptors (INSR/IGF1R) Family.- MET Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Family.- MuSK Receptor Family.- The PDGFR Receptor Family.- PTK7 Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Family.- RET Receptor Tyrosine Kinase.- ROR Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Family.- ROS1 Receptor Tyrosine Kinase.- The RYK Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Subfamily.- TIE Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Family.- TRK Receptor Family.- The VEGF Family of Ligands and Receptors.- NOK Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Family.
About the author
Dr. Deric Wheeler received an M.S. in pathology from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in Cancer Biology from the University of Wisconsin. He conducted his postdoctoral training at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA, and at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, where he eventually transitioned to faculty as an assistant professor in the department of human oncology. Dr. Wheeler's lab research centers on resistance to molecular targeting agents and the role of subcellular localization of receptor tyrosine kinases and their roles in oncogenesis.
Dr. Yosef Yarden received a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. He completed postdoctoral training at Genentech, Inc. in San Francisco and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. He returned to the Weizmann Institute of Science first as an assistant professor and then later as a full professor.His past administrative responsibilities at the Weizmann Institute include Dean of the Faculty of Biology, Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Director of the M.D. Moross Institute for Cancer Research, and Dean of the Feinberg Graduate School. Dr. Yarden's lab research centers on the roles played by growth factors and receptor tyrosine kinases in tumor progression.
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"An in depth study of the RTK families in 19 chapters. ... Clearly written and with extensive references after each chapter. For endocrinologists, molecular biologists and oncologists." (Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews (PER), Vol. 13 (3), March, 2016)
