: any of various enzymes that catalyze the transfer of phosphate groups from a high-energy phosphate-containing molecule (such as ATP) to a substrate compare protein kinase
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In the absence of this kinase (PLK1, for the curious), the three-protein complex doesn't form.
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John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2024
The drug, an allosteric tyrosine kinase 2 inhibitor, performed comparably to Sotyktu, a similar medicine made by Bristol Myers Squibb that was approved in 2022, FierceBiotech writes.
—Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 11 Mar. 2024
Treatment can include monitoring the tumor (surveillance) or interventions such as surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or medications such as tyrosine kinase inhibitors.
Surgery, which was once a primary treatment, has become less common due to high morbidity and postsurgical recurrence rates.
—Laura Hensley, Verywell Health, 13 Dec. 2023
Physicians had indeed moved their patients over to one of the newer tyrosine kinase inhibitors like Tasigna.
—WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
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John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2024
The drug, an allosteric tyrosine kinase 2 inhibitor, performed comparably to Sotyktu, a similar medicine made by Bristol Myers Squibb that was approved in 2022, FierceBiotech writes.
—Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 11 Mar. 2024
Treatment can include monitoring the tumor (surveillance) or interventions such as surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or medications such as tyrosine kinase inhibitors.
Surgery, which was once a primary treatment, has become less common due to high morbidity and postsurgical recurrence rates.
—Laura Hensley, Verywell Health, 13 Dec. 2023
Physicians had indeed moved their patients over to one of the newer tyrosine kinase inhibitors like Tasigna.
—WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
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kinase
noun
ki·nase
ˈkī-ˌnās, -ˌnāz 
: any of various enzymes that catalyze the transfer of phosphate groups from a high-energy phosphate-containing molecule (as ATP or ADP) to a substrate
called also phosphokinase
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