Her 3

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v-erb-b2 erythroblastic leukemia viral oncogene homolog 3 (avian)
Identifiers
Symbol ERBB3
HUGO 3431
Entrez 2065
OMIM 190151
RefSeq NM_001982
UniProt P21860
Other data
Locus Chr. 12 q13

ErbB3 (Her-3) is a member of the EGFR family of receptor tyrosine-kinases. However, despite the namesake of the protein family to which it belongs, ErbB3 does not have kinase activity. Rather, it is thought that ErbB3, when activated, becomes a substrate for dimerization and subsequent phosphorylation by ErbB1, ErbB2 and ErbB4.

Like many of the receptor tyrosine-kinases, ErbB3 is activated by extracellular ligand. Ligands known to bind to ErbB3 include heregulin.

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