A novel Dictyostelium RasGEF is required for normal endocytosis, cell motility and multicellular development
A novel Dictyostelium RasGEF is required for normal endocytosis, cell motility and multicellular development
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正常的内吞作用、细胞运动和多细胞发育需要一种新型盘基网柄菌 RasGEF
DOI:
10.1016/s0960-9822(00)00797-1
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发表时间:
2000
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影响因子:
9.2
通讯作者:
R. Insall
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文献类型:
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作者:
A. Wilkins;Jonathan R. Chubb;R. Insall
Background:Dictyosteliumpossesses a surprisingly large number of Ras proteins and little is known about their activators, the guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs). It is also unclear, inDictyosteliumor in higher eukaryotes, whether Ras pathways are linear, with each Ras controlled by its own GEF, or networked, with multiple GEFs acting on multiple Ras proteins.Results:We have identified theDictyosteliumgene that encodes RasGEFB, a protein with homology to known RasGEFs such as the Son-of-sevenless (Sos) protein.Dictyosteliumcells in which the gene for RasGEFB was disrupted moved unusually rapidly, but lost the ability to perform macropinocytosis and therefore to grow in liquid medium. Crowns, the sites of macropinocytosis, were replaced by polarised lamellipodia. Mutant cells were also profoundly defective in early development, although they eventually formed tiny but normally proportioned fruiting bodies. This defect correlated with loss of discoidin Iγ mRNA, a starvation-induced gene, although other genes required for development were expressed normally or even precociously. RasGEFB was able to rescue aSaccharomyces CDC25mutant, indicating that it is a genuine GEF for Ras proteins.Conclusions:RasGEFB appears to be the principal activator of the RasS protein, which regulates macropinocytosis and cell speed, but it also appears to regulate one or more other Ras proteins.
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