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- * Guanine-nucleotide dissociation stimulators CDC24 family signature *
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- Ras proteins are membrane-associated molecular switches that bind GTP and GDP
- and slowly hydrolyze GTP to GDP [1]. The balance between the GTP bound
- (active) and GDP bound (inactive) states is regulated by the opposite action
- of proteins activating the GTPase activity and that of proteins which promote
- the loss of bound GDP and the uptake of fresh GTP [2,3]. The latter proteins
- are known as guanine-nucleotide dissociation stimulators (GDSs) (or also as
- guanine-nucleotide releasing (or exchange) factors (GRFs)). Proteins that act
- as GDS can be classified into at least two families, on the basis of sequence
- similarities. One of these families is currently known to group the proteins
- listed below (references are only provided for recently determined
- sequences):
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- - CDC24 from yeast. CDC24 is a GDS that acts on the ras-like protein CDC42.
- - Dbl (or mcf-2) oncogene from mammals. Dbl is a GDS for a ras-like protein
- known as G25K or CDC42Hs.
- - p140-RAS GRF (cdc25Mm) from mammals. This protein, a GDS for ras, possesses
- both a domain belonging to the CDC24 family and one belonging to the CDC25
- family.
- - Bcr oncogene from mammals. Bcr can form a chimera with the abl protein and
- then cause chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). The target of bcr is not yet
- known.
- - Oncogene vav from mammals. The target of this protein is not yet known.
- - Oncogene ect2 from mouse [4]. The target of this protein is not yet known.
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- The size of these proteins range from 736 residues (CDC42) to 1271 residues
- (bcr). The sequence similarity shared by all these proteins is limited to a
- region of about 180 amino acids, generally located in their N-terminal or
- central section. As a signature pattern, we selected the most conserved part
- of this domain.
-
- -Consensus pattern: L-x(2)-[LIVMFYW]-L-x(2)-P-[LIVM]-x(2)-[LIVM]-x-[KRS]-x(2)-
- L-x-[LIVM]-x-[DE]-[LIVM]-x(3)-[ST]
- -Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL.
- -Other sequence(s) detected in SWISS-PROT: NONE.
-
- -Expert(s) to contact by email: Boguski M.S.
- boguski@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
-
- -Last update: June 1994 / Text revised.
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- [ 1] Bourne H.R., Sanders D.A., McCormick F.
- Nature 349:117-127(1991).
- [ 2] Boguski M.S., McCormick F.
- Nature 366:643-654(1993).
- [ 3] Downward J.
- Curr. Biol. 2:329-331(1992).
- [ 4] Miki T., Smith C.L., Long J.E., Eva A., Fleming T.P.
- Nature 362:462-465(1993).
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