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Laura Nocka

Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Verified email at stanford.edu
Cited by 350

Autoinhibition of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk) and activation by soluble inositol hexakisphosphate

Q Wang, EM Vogan, LM Nocka, CE Rosen, JA Zorn… - Elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
10.7554/eLife.06074.001 Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk), a Tec-family tyrosine kinase, is
essential for B-cell function. We present crystallographic and biochemical analyses of Btk, which …

The Src module: an ancient scaffold in the evolution of cytoplasmic tyrosine kinases

NH Shah, JF Amacher, LM Nocka… - Critical reviews in …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Tyrosine kinases were first discovered as the protein products of viral oncogenes. We now
know that this large family of metazoan enzymes includes nearly one hundred structurally …

[PDF][PDF] Coupled membrane lipid miscibility and phosphotyrosine-driven protein condensation phase transitions

JK Chung, WYC Huang, CB Carbone, LM Nocka… - Biophysical journal, 2021 - cell.com
Lipid miscibility phase separation has long been considered to be a central element of cell
membrane organization. More recently, protein condensation phase transitions, into three-…

Switch-like activation of Bruton's tyrosine kinase by membrane-mediated dimerization

JK Chung, LM Nocka, A Decker… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The transformation of molecular binding events into cellular decisions is the basis of most
biological signal transduction. A fundamental challenge faced by these systems is that reliance …

A saturation-mutagenesis analysis of the interplay between stability and activation in Ras

F Hidalgo, LM Nocka, NH Shah, K Gorday… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Cancer mutations in Ras occur predominantly at three hotspots: Gly 12, Gly 13, and Gln 61.
Previously, we reported that deep mutagenesis of H-Ras using a bacterial assay identified …

A two-component protein condensate of the EGFR cytoplasmic tail and Grb2 regulates Ras activation by SOS at the membrane

CW Lin, LM Nocka, BL Stinger… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
We reconstitute a phosphotyrosine-mediated protein condensation phase transition of the ∼200
residue cytoplasmic tail of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and the adaptor …

[HTML][HTML] Holliday junction thermodynamics and structure: Coarse-grained simulations and experiments

W Wang, LM Nocka, BZ Wiemann, DM Hinckley… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Holliday junctions play a central role in genetic recombination, DNA repair and other cellular
processes. We combine simulations and experiments to evaluate the ability of the 3SPN.2 …

Stimulation of the catalytic activity of the tyrosine kinase Btk by the adaptor protein Grb2

LM Nocka, TJ Eisen, AT Iavarone, JT Groves, J Kuriyan - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
The Tec-family kinase Btk contains a lipid-binding Pleckstrin homology and Tec homology (PH-TH)
module connected by a proline-rich linker to a ‘Src module’, an SH3-SH2-kinase unit …

[HTML][HTML] Probing the ion binding site in a DNA Holliday junction using Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET)

JL Litke, Y Li, LM Nocka, I Mukerji - International journal of molecular …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Holliday Junctions are critical DNA intermediates central to double strand break repair and
homologous recombination. The junctions can adopt two general forms: open and stacked-X, …

A two-component protein condensate of EGFR and Grb2 regulates Ras activation at the membrane

CW Lin, LM Nocka, B Stinger, J DeGrandchamp, N Lew… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
We reconstitute a phosphotyrosine-mediated protein condensation phase transition of the ∼200
residue cytoplasmic tail of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and the adaptor …