Publication Date:
2003-10-25
Description:
Rab/Ypt guanosine triphosphatases (GTPases) represent a family of key membrane traffic regulators in eukaryotic cells whose function is governed by the guanosine diphosphate (GDP) dissociation inhibitor (RabGDI). Using a combination of chemical synthesis and protein engineering, we generated and crystallized the monoprenylated Ypt1:RabGDI complex. The structure of the complex was solved to 1.5 angstrom resolution and provides a structural basis for the ability of RabGDI to inhibit the release of nucleotide by Rab proteins. Isoprenoid binding requires a conformational change that opens a cavity in the hydrophobic core of its domain II. Analysis of the structure provides a molecular basis for understanding a RabGDI mutant that causes mental retardation in humans.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rak, Alexey -- Pylypenko, Olena -- Durek, Thomas -- Watzke, Anja -- Kushnir, Susanna -- Brunsveld, Lucas -- Waldmann, Herbert -- Goody, Roger S -- Alexandrov, Kirill -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2003 Oct 24;302(5645):646-50.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Physical Biochemistry, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Physiology, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11, 44227 Dortmund, Germany.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14576435" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Binding Sites
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Crystallization
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Crystallography, X-Ray
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Guanine Nucleotide Dissociation Inhibitors/*chemistry/genetics/metabolism
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Guanosine Diphosphate/chemistry/metabolism
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Hydrogen Bonding
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Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions
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Lipid Metabolism
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Magnesium/chemistry/metabolism
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Models, Molecular
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Mutation
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Protein Binding
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Protein Conformation
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Protein Prenylation
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Protein Structure, Secondary
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Protein Structure, Tertiary
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Recombinant Proteins/chemistry/metabolism
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/chemistry/metabolism
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rab GTP-Binding Proteins/*chemistry/metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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