A non-receptor
tyrosine kinase of the src family but distinguished from other members by its
large COOH terminal domain. cAbl binds both G-actin and F-actin bundling
the latter suggesting that it contains two F-actin binding sites. Two forms of the normal protein exist which
differ in the extreme N terminal. One form (type IV/Ib) is myristoylated
on the N-terminal glycine, the other normal form (I/Ia) is not. The. Abl-related
non-receptor tyrosine kinase Arg also binds actin and has two actin-binding
sites and so is able to bundles actin filaments (Wang
et al, 2001)
Arg,
(Abl-related gene) a nonreceptor tyrosine kinase is as its name suggests related
to c-Abl (Wang et al,
2001)
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contains distinct F-actin and G-actin binding domains with bundling
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