Autophosphorylation

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This type of phosphorylation occurs on scaffold proteins on receptors that cluster together to form dimers, a main example of this is on Recepter Tyrosine Kinases. In this case, the phosphorylation of a tyrosine on one receptor, causes a cascade effect of the neighboring tyrosines on the other receptor by the way of cross-phosphorylation. [1]

References 

  1. Hardin J, Bertoni G, Kleinsmith LJ. Becker's World of the Cell. 8th Ed, San Francisco: Pearson. 2006. p408